Re: [gentoo-dev] Calling unknown commands in an ebuild

[Rémi Cardona]

Le 08/02/2010 03:24, Mike Frysinger a écrit :
> if we wanted to specifically target semi-common errors (and i think 'epatch'
> w/out eutils.eclass falls into this category), then a repoman check would be
> good.
>
> it might also be useful to add a default epatch() to the initial env that
> would be clobbered when the inherit occurred.
> 	epatch() { die "you need to inherit eutils.eclass to use epatch" ; }

+1, that's a very good idea! I've stopped counting how many times that's
happened to me.

I'm sure there are other common mistakes we all do, but this particular
one is a low-hanging fruit.

Cheers,

Rémi