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From: Homer Parker <hparker@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:17:45
Message-Id: 1340284585.5028.17.camel@homer
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About what would be included in EAPI5 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 13:25 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:04:41 -0500
3 > Homer Parker <hparker@g.o> wrote:
4 > > Damnit, let the user shoot themself in the foot but let them
5 > > learn from it. Remember back in the day when you had no clue? You
6 > > learned from it. You can only protect them so much. If they want to
7 > > use custom patches then they need to learn how.
8 >
9 > That's not the issue. The issue is advertising a user patches feature
10 > when there's no way for the user to know up-front whether or not their
11 > patches will be applied. This whole discussion started because user
12 > patches are currently randomly ignored sometimes.
13 >
14
15 I guess I missed it's not a global feature, sorry. That said,
16 everything else stands.
17
18 --
19 Homer Parker <hparker@g.o>

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