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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, qa@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-util/netbeans: ChangeLog netbeans-6.9-r3.ebuild
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:15:21
Message-Id: 201007221314.44252.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-util/netbeans: ChangeLog netbeans-6.9-r3.ebuild by Peter Volkov
1 On Thursday, July 22, 2010 09:19:35 Peter Volkov wrote:
2 > В Чтв, 22/07/2010 в 14:32 +0200, "Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)" пишет:
3 > > Dne 22.7.2010 10:44, Peter Volkov napsal(a):
4 > > > В Срд, 21/07/2010 в 17:18 +0200, "Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)" пишет:
5 > > >>> epatch_user() from euitls.eclass
6 > > >>
7 > > >> so this is undocumented feature? i did not know about this cool
8 > > >> feature till now.
9 > > >
10 > > > It's undocumented since it's better to avoid this feature in ebuilds
11 > >
12 > > well, problem is that some patches simply cannot make it to offficial
13 > > sources nor our ebuilds.
14 >
15 > Then either use overlay or, for personal needs, it's not hard to patch
16 > sources using bashrc. Completely no need for epatch_user().
17
18 it's at the maintainer's discretion, so if Miroslav wants it and he's the
19 maintainer, then he's free to do so ...
20 -mike

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