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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:02:07
Message-Id: 20120426000955.1ab60c11@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available by Zac Medico
1 On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:03:18 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 04/25/2012 09:44 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
5 > > Yeah the whole idea here was to make user patches available without ebuild
6 > > modifications or eclass dependence.
7
8 > Using the "apply_user_patches_here" approach [1] that Ciaran suggested,
9 > the ebuild wouldn't need any modification unless it overrides
10 > default_src_prepare.
11
12 Which is a very large number of ebuilds. :) But it's a step in the right
13 direction.
14
15 > There is not necessarily any "eclass dependence",
16 > though the ebuild may call eclass functions such as eautoreconf when
17 > necessary.
18 >
19 > [1]
20 > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_c228be85e0c4e577ad194e6004d59062.xml
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