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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:09:03
Message-Id: 4F9AC466.5040208@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 04/27/2012 09:00 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:55:49 -0700
3 > Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
4 >> I suppose that we could do it both ways. The repoman check would be
5 >> for people who want a practical approach that doesn't require all
6 >> ebuilds to be converted to EAPI 5, and your strict die approach would
7 >> be for people who want strictness and can afford to wait for the
8 >> relevant ebuilds to be converted to EAPI 5.
9 >
10 > But there's no way the repoman check is going to give anything like
11 > reliable answers if you're involving eclasses...
12
13 Okay, so people who need "reliable answers" can go with your strict
14 approach. Meanwhile, it's relatively easy to to a manual audit of the
15 src_prepare function of each eclass.
16 --
17 Thanks,
18 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>