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From: Francesco Riosa <vivo75@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds!
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 23:25:35
Message-Id: CAD6zcDx=ACn+fj2SO1S_abZ7A_DtWwFtmHj0vYCEBRSW5dmdZw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds! by Mike Frysinger
1 2012/5/22 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>:
2 > On Monday 21 May 2012 19:01:04 Francesco Riosa wrote:
3 >> 2012/5/22 Mike Frysinger:
4 >> > On Monday 21 May 2012 18:16:25 Markos Chandras wrote:
5 >> >> Excuse me but the way this change was handled is a bit depressing.
6 >> >> First, the ebuilds should have been fixed to inherit eutils and then
7 >> >> remove eutils from autotools. Now, a bunch of ebuilds are broken out
8 >> >> of nowhere. I don't believe this issue was that urgent in order to
9 >> >> justify the significant breakage of portage tree.
10 >> >
11 >> > you're assuming the breakage was intentional.  i also wouldn't really
12 >> > describe it as "significant", but that's just quibbling over an
13 >> > insignificant aspect.
14 >>
15 >> It's intentional not to revert the change, it's significant because it
16 >> involve a number of significant packages like icu, vim and boost, some
17 >> of them already marked stable (from a fast grep from the one mentioned
18 >> in the previous posts).
19 >
20 > you've identified the broke things.  so fix them.
21 > -mike
22
23 wanna give me commit access for few hours?
24 I've already done mass changes to the tree when introducing
25 virtual/mysql seem something doable the same way.

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