On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 09:42 Wed 26 Nov     , Peter Alfredsen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > > > 	# Make selecting components configurable.
> > > > 	epatch ${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}-configurable.diff
> > >
> > > This seems like something you might want optional, depending on
> > > some variable.
> >
> > It really isn't. That patch adds AC_ARG_ENABLEs to configure so we
> > can split up the gnome-sharp and gnome-desktop-sharp tarballs into
> > smaller pieces.
>
> I'm thinking of what happens when you don't need the patch anymore
> for a newer release but still do for an older one.

Then I add in the $PATCH_ACCEPTED_UPSTREAM var. 

> Or maybe you 
> update the patch and want to test it on ~arch revisions for a while
> before hitting stable users with it.

I could add another var into the mix.

This isn't a catch-all eclass. It's designed for a very narrow group of 
ebuilds which will only get smaller as I transition the packages to 
eapi-2 and use depends.

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/PA