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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:44:26
Message-Id: 4F999759.9020805@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available by "Michał Górny"
1 On 04/26/2012 11:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:18:32 +0000 (UTC)
3 > Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
4 >
5 >> My suggestion is therefore to do the simple thing, just apply any
6 >> patches found in the patches dir, and punt on the complicated
7 >> do-we-eautoreconf- or-not thing.
8 >
9 > Agreed. Just make sure the feature will be only used for ebuilds not
10 > calling epatch_user manually or through the eclass.
11
12 So the package manager is supposed to interact with an eclass function?
13 That's pretty ugly. Why not just roll out a quick EAPI 5 that adds
14 support for the "apply_user_patches_here" approach [1]?
15
16 http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_c228be85e0c4e577ad194e6004d59062.xml
17 --
18 Thanks,
19 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>