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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eclass2manpage] Add @PROVIDES tag to indicate transitive eclass inheritance
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:26:22
Message-Id: 6bc3d4042f3e56d06230de7bd3b609859624a814.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH eclass2manpage] Add @PROVIDES tag to indicate transitive eclass inheritance by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sun, 2021-08-29 at 11:17 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Add a @PROVIDES eclassdoc tag that can be used to indicate that
3 > a particular eclass transitively provides the functions from another
4 > eclass and therefore ebuilds inheriting it do not have to explicitly
5 > inherit the other eclass.
6 >
7 > For example, distutils-r1 provides python-r1/python-single-r1, and all
8 > python*-r1 eclasse provide python-utils-r1.
9 >
10 > This data will be used to drive pkgcheck checks for missing inherits.
11 >
12
13 Merged. Expect new pkgcore+pkgcheck release in a few days.
14
15 --
16 Best regards,
17 Michał Górny