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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: [Future EAPI] Exporting phase funcs from direct inherits only
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:55:34
Message-Id: 20120814225413.7aff9e02@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: [Future EAPI] Exporting phase funcs from direct inherits only by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:45:56 +0100
2 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:44:49 +0200
5 > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
6 > > As some of you may have noticed, lately introduced 'double include
7 > > preventions' have caused changes in effective phase functions in a
8 > > few ebuilds. Also, often it is undesirable that change in inherits
9 > > of an eclass may cause an undesired change of exported functions.
10 >
11 > The problem here is that eclasses aren't clearly split between
12 > "utility" and "does stuff", so people are inheriting "does stuff"
13 > eclasses to get utilities. The fix is to stop having stupidly huge
14 > complicated eclasses; changing inherit behaviour is just wallpapering
15 > over the gaping hole.
16
17 Soo, how do you propose to handle bug 422533 without changing inherit
18 behavior?
19
20 --
21 Best regards,
22 Michał Górny

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