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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 15:49:20
Message-Id: 20120427164549.052d85be@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available by Zac Medico
1 On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:41:35 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3 > > In order to make it globally available, you put it in EAPI 5, and
4 > > make the package mangler die at pretend time if the user has patches
5 > > specified for a package that isn't EAPI 5.
6 >
7 > Or, have repoman assert that src_prepare contains an epatch_user call
8 > if EAPI is less than 5.
9
10 Why bother? That's hideously error prone. We have a simple way that's
11 guaranteed to work, and that is able to inform the user if their
12 expectations can't be met.
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>