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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-04-09
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 08:00:11
Message-Id: 20130407082718.3e7d961f@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-04-09 by Ryan Hill
1 On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 20:05:11 -0600
2 Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> wrote:
3 > In short:
4 > Toolchain packages, for better or worse, are built by eclass. We are
5 > not forward-porting toolchain.eclass every time someone decides there
6 > are too many EAPIs in the tree. Every change to that eclass breaks
7 > something (the trick is to break things people don't care about any
8 > more and hope no one notices). I don't know the ins and outs of
9 > glibc's eblits but I doubt they would be simple to port either. I
10 > also don't know much about toolchain-binutils.eclass, but it seems
11 > like it would be doable.
12
13 Sounds like a good opportunity to replace toolchain.eclass with
14 something clean and understandable.
15
16 --
17 Ciaran McCreesh

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