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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:56:59
Message-Id: 47DA7617.8050502@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Major changes to the Gnome2 Eclasses by David Leverton
1 David Leverton kirjoitti:
2 > On Friday 14 March 2008 12:14:39 Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> David Leverton kirjoitti:
4 >>> Maybe worth adding a dummy to the current version of the eclass so that
5 >>> ebuilds can be updated now, instead of suddenly all at once as soon as
6 >>> the new eclass is committed?
7 >> And break a bunch of ebuilds to stable users. No thanks.
8 >
9 > Hmm? I don't see how this would break anything... unless you mean that
10 > exporting the dummy function would overwrite one that actually does something
11 > important, but that's easily worked around by not exporting it until the
12 > ebuilds are fixed, as far as I can tell. In any case, not doing anything
13 > until the new eclass is committed is going to break ebuilds until they're
14 > updated to call the new function, whether stable or ~arch.
15
16 Adding new eclass functions can shadow things but yeah this only happens
17 when you export them. I found out that only a couple of ebuilds need
18 modification so I would have just committed everything at once.
19
20 Regards,
21 Petteri

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