[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] EAPI 6 draft for review

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld <zx2c4@g.o>
wrote:
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> The other question is more critical -- could you merge eapply and
> eapply_user? Or add some hook to PMS so that eapply_user isn't needed? IOW,
> it'd be nice if every package was, by default, patchable by the user.
>

Looks like I answered my own question!

From the spec:

For EAPIs listed in table 9.3 as using format 6, the default implementation
> used when the ebuild lacks the src_prepare function shall behave as:
> src_prepare() {
>     if declare -p PATCHES | grep -q "^declare -a "; then
>         [[ -n ${PATCHES[@]} ]] && eapply "${PATCHES[@]}"
>     else
>         [[ -n ${PATCHES} ]] && eapply ${PATCHES}
>     fi
>     eapply_user
> }


Awesome!!

This is a great change.