Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] skel.ebuild: Update comments for inherit, SLOT, KEYWORDS.

[William Hubbs]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 06:44:39PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> W dniu nie, 31.12.2017 o godzinie 14∶31 +0100, użytkownik Ulrich Müller
> napisał:
> > epatch() is provided by epatch.eclass now. Also comment the inherit
> > line, since not every ebuild will use it.
> >
> > Empty SLOT doesn't disable slots, but is outright illegal in all EAPIs.
> > Similar for KEYWORDS="*", which isn't "deprecated" but invalid.
> > ---
> >  skel.ebuild | 9 ++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/skel.ebuild b/skel.ebuild
> > index 7ac9dfb7d6d8..4c19b1de4cb8 100644
> > --- a/skel.ebuild
> > +++ b/skel.ebuild
> > @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
> >  EAPI=6
> >
> >  # inherit lists eclasses to inherit functions from. For example, an ebuild
> > -# that needs the epatch function from eutils.eclass won't work without the
> > +# that needs the epatch function from epatch.eclass won't work without the
> >  # following line:
> > -inherit eutils
> > +#inherit epatch
>
> Well, given that it's EAPI 6 and we do not want to encourage people to
> use epatch there, I would prefer if we replaced that example with
> something else. But it's just a wishful thinking here.

+1, but I'm not going to suggest what to replace it with.

William