Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: williamh@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:13:20
Message-Id: 20120416101224.0fc8faa5@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available by William Hubbs
1 On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:19:18 -0500
2 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 03:55:58PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > >
6 > > What if some patches are applied conditionally?
7 >
8 > imo patches that are applied conditionally should be rewritten so they
9 > can always be applied.
10 >
11 > patches that are applied conditionally probably won't get into upsream
12 > most of the time.
13
14 Sometimes patches won't get upstream anyway. Any by making them
15 conditional, we save users from needless dependencies and complete
16 autoreconf when it's actually necessary only in a very rare case.
17
18 --
19 Best regards,
20 Michał Górny

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