Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] eutils.eclass / EPATCH_EXCLUDE defined wrong?
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:14:04
Message-Id: 201208172312.50586.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] eutils.eclass / EPATCH_EXCLUDE defined wrong? by Kent Fredric
1 On Monday 06 August 2012 15:45:46 Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > Looking at the source of eutils.eclass ' # Let people filter things
3 > dynamically ' suggests to me that this field is for use by a end user
4 > via package.env and friends.
5
6 no, it is meant for packagers to have a single patch tarball, setup
7 EPATCH_EXCLUDE based on USE flags, and then run epatch on that one dir.
8 otherwise, you'd have to `rm` files.
9
10 there is no support for end users discarding selective patches via package.env
11 -mike

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