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From: Elfyn McBratney <beu@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Per-category and per-package eclasses
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:32:58
Message-Id: 200504251533.17188@zippy.emcb.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Per-category and per-package eclasses by Mike Frysinger
1 On Monday 25 Apr 2005 15:20, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday 25 April 2005 08:43 am, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
3 > > The other night, some of us in #gentoo-uk got talking about per-category
4 > > and per-package eclasses
5 >
6 > you mean Bug 69714 i filed ~6 months ago ? ;)
7
8 Ah, you see .. ciaranm didn't tell me about that .. you know, i was just
9 following orders ;)
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11 > you should go into the mail archives and review the superior solution that
12 > was hashed out ... i think it was called 'elibs'/'esource' or something
13
14 Yep, I've read up on elibs. Speaking with johnm about it, this was sort of an
15 extension thereto .. kinda. Perhaps a s/eclass/elib/ is in order, since the
16 only real difference is a function call. Either way, package/category-local
17 'ethings' would be cool. :)
18
19 > i dont know if anything has been done portage side though
20
21 Don't think so, still awaiting glep approval, iirc.
22
23 Best,
24 Elfyn
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