Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?

[Sid S]

Oh. I've had to use that, even. I was thinking patches of ebuilds. (???)

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:

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