Re: [gentoo-alt] Objections to checking-in eclasses into prefix-users?

[Fabian Groffen]

On 03-02-2008 11:14:42 +0000, Dirk Tilger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to checkin a number of ebuilds that bring php into gentoo-alt
> land and wanted to double check what the opinions are about overriding
> eclasses in prefix-users. The following messages would be generated for
> everyone using the prefix-users overlay:

Are those changes with diffs somewhere in a bug?

> |  * Overlay eclasses override eclasses from PORTDIR:
> |  *
> |  *   '/Gentoo/usr/portage/local/layman/prefix-users/eclass/depend.php.eclass'
> |  *   '/Gentoo/usr/portage/local/layman/prefix-users/eclass/php4_4-sapi.eclass'
> |  *   '/Gentoo/usr/portage/local/layman/prefix-users/eclass/php5_2-sapi.eclass'
> |  *   '/Gentoo/usr/portage/local/layman/prefix-users/eclass/phpconfutils.eclass'
> |  *
> |  * It is best to avoid overridding eclasses from PORTDIR because it will
> |  * trigger invalidation of cached ebuild metadata that is distributed
> |  * with
> |  * the portage tree. If you must override eclasses from PORTDIR then you
> |  * are advised to run `emerge --regen` after each time that you run
> |  * `emerge
> |  * --sync`. Set PORTAGE_ECLASS_WARNING_ENABLE="0" in /etc/make.conf if
> |  * you
> |  * would like to disable this warning.
>
> Dirk.
>
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