Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass no longer inherits eutils; check your ebuilds!

[Francesco Riosa]

2012/5/21 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>:
> On Monday 21 May 2012 19:24:27 Francesco Riosa wrote:
>> 2012/5/22 Mike Frysinger:
>> > On Monday 21 May 2012 19:01:04 Francesco Riosa wrote:
>> >> 2012/5/22 Mike Frysinger:
>> >> > On Monday 21 May 2012 18:16:25 Markos Chandras wrote:
>> >> >> Excuse me but the way this change was handled is a bit depressing.
>> >> >> First, the ebuilds should have been fixed to inherit eutils and then
>> >> >> remove eutils from autotools. Now, a bunch of ebuilds are broken out
>> >> >> of nowhere. I don't believe this issue was that urgent in order to
>> >> >> justify the significant breakage of portage tree.
>> >> >
>> >> > you're assuming the breakage was intentional.  i also wouldn't really
>> >> > describe it as "significant", but that's just quibbling over an
>> >> > insignificant aspect.
>> >>
>> >> It's intentional not to revert the change, it's significant because it
>> >> involve a number of significant packages like icu, vim and boost, some
>> >> of them already marked stable (from a fast grep from the one mentioned
>> >> in the previous posts).
>> >
>> > you've identified the broke things.  so fix them.
>>
>> wanna give me commit access for few hours?
>
> just join as a dev and get it over with ;P

maybe gentoo will live better w/o my fat typeing hands :-P

>> I've already done mass changes to the tree when introducing
>> virtual/mysql seem something doable the same way.
>
> seems people have already fixed most (if not all) errors related to
> autotools.eclass

Seem to be the better outcome.  If someone could fix the remaining
unfixed after x days that would be perfect, it's always unpleasant to
touch other devs ebuilds but sometimes is just the only thing to do
(replace with some philosophy mumble at pleasure;-)

good night and thanks for answering