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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Sid S <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>Today, ebuilds don't even let a chance for an admin to apply a series of |
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>>patches to the vanilla/distro-maintainer sources without having to |
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>>rewrite/fork the ebuild. |
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> There isn't a way to specify ebuild properties in a way like command line |
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> arguments? Where you can explicitly silence options by specifying them |
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> later, etc? |
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Any environment-level property can be overridden at the command line, |
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though this does not include patching. |
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However, the original claim is still wrong - you just stick the |
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patches in /etc/portage/patches. This only works for ebuilds that |
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call epatch_user right now, but for EAPI6 it will work for all |
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packages. |
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Rich |
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