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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:30:54
Message-Id: 20120427152709.14a6c0bf@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:15:35 +0000 (UTC)
2 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
3 > In ordered to make it globally available, it cannot simply be an
4 > EAPI-5 thing, it must apply to all current ebuilds whether they (or
5 > an inherited eclass) call epatch_user or not. Which means that
6 > conflict with the existing epatch_user is unavoidable, since it will
7 > either try to run twice where it's already called, or it won't run at
8 > all where it's not.
9
10 In order to make it globally available, you put it in EAPI 5, and make
11 the package mangler die at pretend time if the user has patches
12 specified for a package that isn't EAPI 5.
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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