Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New eclass: mate

[M. J. Everitt]

On 11/04/16 06:09, NP-Hardass wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> As all potential new eclasses are supposed to be discussed here, I
> thought I'd file a message and see if anyone had anything to
> contribute on the matter.
>
> I'm in the midst of a major version bump for the entirety of the MATE
> desktop environment, consisting of 40-50 packages.  There is a huge
> amount of repetition in my ebuilds, and a lot of things are formulaic
> (SRC_URI, HOMEPAGE, EGIT_REPO_URI, inherits, src_prepare, etc).  As
> such, I think that moving all of that to an eclass would greatly
> simplify my life and my ebuilds, so I thought I'd look into creating
> an eclass.
>
> Any opinions either way?   Thanks in advance.
>
>
I say go for it .. post up any milestones for review, of course... :]