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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:31:17PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will avoid |
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> > all the silliness of people repeatedly changing their minds about |
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> > which phase should do the eautoreconf calls and so on. |
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> a) Is this really an issue for maintainers? |
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As someone who has worked with exheres, I very much want this phase for |
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EAPI 2. It makes things simpler and more logical. Why should patching be |
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done in _unpack? It shouldn't, and that's a reason why _prepare should |
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be added. |
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> b) Does it really matter? |
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To me, yes |
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