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From: David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:42:56
Message-Id: 4F8F3513.2060202@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available by Zac Medico
1 Zac Medico wrote:
2 > Isn't that just a consequence of how autotools works? Do you have a
3 > better alternative?
4
5 Maaaybe letting the package manager know how to run autotools if
6 necessary? There's already built-in autotools knowledge in that econf
7 is in practice autotools-specific. On the other hand, the eclass logic
8 isn't trivial, so unless a simplified subset would be adequate for this
9 usage it's probably best left as it is.
10
11 The point I was trying to get at was that it seems a bit heavyweight to
12 rely on a whole eclass for a minor use-case, as well as a bit
13 error-prone to expect people to remember it every time, but maybe that's
14 the least bad option after all....

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>