[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

[Steve Long]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:18:33 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
>>  * The old src_compile phase function is split into separate
>>    src_configure and src_compile fuctions.
>
> If you're doing new phases... Exheres has been using src_prepare, after
> src_unpack, to avoid having lots of things of the form:
>
> src_unpack() {
>     default
>     patch blah
>     eautoreconf
> }
>
Besides saving one line of typing, what is the benefit of adding this new
phase?