Wouldn't it also make sense to have "per-category eclasses"? This seems much more useful for me. 

Examples where this would already make sense today: kde-meta, latex-package, ...

Best, Andreas

On Sunday 19 September 2010 21:14:56 Matti Bickel wrote:
> I'm a couple weeks late with this, but here goes:
> from my failed attempts at reviving GLEP33 grow a discussion with
> ferringb on IRC about how to get what I wanted anyway :)
> 
> We agreed that having eclasses specific to a package located someplace
> near the actual ebuilds was beneficial and should be supported by PMs
> somehow. Someplace and somehow are specified along some other details in
> the attached proposed GLEP.
> 
> I'm posting this for review by the wider community, at the same time
> asking the GLEP editors (antarus? pva?) for guidance on the formalities.
> I gather the GLEP should get a number and be uploaded in CVS somewhere,
> as well as appear on the GLEP project page.
> 
> So, yeah, what do you think? Is it worth it? Can the draft be improved?
> I'm specifically interested in the amount of work involved in supporting
> something like the thing laid out in the GLEP in our current PMs.
> 

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