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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: abcd@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: autotools-multilib-minimal
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:18:32
Message-Id: 20130224191841.6e89c1fb@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: autotools-multilib-minimal by Jonathan Callen
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4 On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:05:51 -0500
5 Jonathan Callen <abcd@g.o> wrote:
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10 > On 02/24/2013 10:53 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
11 > > I think that base.eclass is silently intended for removal at some
12 > > point in the future. While we're here, we should probably mark it
13 > > deprecated.
14 > >
15 >
16 > The problem with deprecating base.eclass and telling people to use
17 > autotools-utils.eclass instead is that base.eclass also defines a
18 > src_prepare that is used for eclasses that support *non*-autotools
19 > build systems, such as cmake-utils.eclass. Requiring that support to
20 > be copied around to each of the eclasses that currently inherits base
21 > would allow the usual issues with copying code around.
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23 If something inherits base.eclass, it should stop. autotools-utils used
24 to do that but I removed the inherit because of base_src_unpack() which
25 was exported for no reason and caused trouble with VCS eclasses.
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28 Best regards,
29 Michał Górny
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