Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available

[Zac Medico]

On 04/27/2012 07:27 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:15:35 +0000 (UTC)
> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
>> In ordered to make it globally available, it cannot simply be an
>> EAPI-5 thing, it must apply to all current ebuilds whether they (or
>> an inherited eclass) call epatch_user or not.  Which means that
>> conflict with the existing epatch_user is unavoidable, since it will
>> either try to run twice where it's already called, or it won't run at
>> all where it's not.
>
> In order to make it globally available, you put it in EAPI 5, and make
> the package mangler die at pretend time if the user has patches
> specified for a package that isn't EAPI 5.

Or, have repoman assert that src_prepare contains an epatch_user call if
EAPI is less than 5.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac