On Sunday 08 March 2009 05:22:03 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> FYI, using EXPORT_FUNCTIONS before inherit, as this patch caused
> x-modular.eclass to do, is broken in current portage releases. Zac said
> he would change this to be consistent with the lack of any ordering
> restriction in the PMS. Thanks to Tomáš Chvátal for tracking down this
> tricky bug!

Better to ask for PMS to be clarified.  All existing package managers do 
EXPORT_FUNCTIONS in more or less the same way, so changing it shouldn't 
happen without an EAPI bump.