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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:45:14
Message-Id: 20120418184138.50153e57@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available by Mike Frysinger
1 On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:39:59 -0400
2 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
3 > i'm not sure splitting patches out of src_prepare into a dedicated
4 > src_patch step would benefit that much. often times, you need to
5 > mangle the code before/after patching.
6
7 Right. If we were going to take the EAPI route with this, the easiest
8 way would probably be to require that overridden src_prepare functions
9 call a magic function called "apply_user_patches_here" (and to barf if
10 a src_prepare finished without having called that function).
11
12 --
13 Ciaran McCreesh

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