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From: David Seifert <soap@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] optfeature.eclass: New eclass with definition from eutils
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:13:00
Message-Id: 144160bb5e15578ea807c924d161dc75b6c832f2.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] optfeature.eclass: New eclass with definition from eutils by Joonas Niilola
1 On Sun, 2020-09-06 at 18:51 +0300, Joonas Niilola wrote:
2 > On 9/6/20 6:47 PM, David Seifert wrote:
3 > > ---
4 > > eclass/optfeature.eclass | 63
5 > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
6 > > 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)
7 > > create mode 100644 eclass/optfeature.eclass
8 > >
9 > Can we have the "why" answered? Wasn't this supposed to be part of
10 > future EAPI?
11 >
12 > -- juippis
13 >
14 >
15
16 It's one of those features that comes up once a year, everyone agrees
17 that it would be great to have, noone wants to provide a proof-of-
18 concept because portage, and then it gets deferred for another round of
19 EAPI. Unless I can be convinced that it will be in EAPI 8, this function
20 will likely stick around.