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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:14:40
Message-Id: 20120427171124.23fd8e3c@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available by Zac Medico
1 On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:08:06 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3 > > But there's no way the repoman check is going to give anything like
4 > > reliable answers if you're involving eclasses...
5 >
6 > Okay, so people who need "reliable answers" can go with your strict
7 > approach. Meanwhile, it's relatively easy to to a manual audit of the
8 > src_prepare function of each eclass.
9
10 Providing unreliable functionality just leads to whining and
11 contortions when it doesn't work. This isn't a situation where
12 compromise is necessary, so there's no reason not to just do it
13 properly.
14
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16 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>