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From: rindeal <dev.rindeal@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] What are eblits?
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 22:29:24
Message-Id: CANgLvuBHuBO+oZ_JPwbuXh5FfmHLguAyQuqwUV2yd7ehdPUmfg@mail.gmail.com
1 I've noticed that ebuilds for at least dev-lang/perl and
2 sys-libs/glibc are using some concept of "eblits", which seems like
3 parts of ebuilds scattered across $FILESDIR with ebuilds containing
4 some logic (involving eval) which includes and runs them.
5
6 I haven't found any documentation related to them so I'm asking here:
7
8 1) what are they?
9 2) why are they used?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] What are eblits? Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
[gentoo-dev] Re: What are eblits? Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] What are eblits? Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
[gentoo-dev] Re: What are eblits? rindeal <dev.rindeal@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] What are eblits? Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o>