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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: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:20:27
Message-Id: 4F9AC713.7060307@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 04/27/2012 09:11 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:08:06 -0700
3 > Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
4 >>> But there's no way the repoman check is going to give anything like
5 >>> reliable answers if you're involving eclasses...
6 >>
7 >> Okay, so people who need "reliable answers" can go with your strict
8 >> approach. Meanwhile, it's relatively easy to to a manual audit of the
9 >> src_prepare function of each eclass.
10 >
11 > Providing unreliable functionality just leads to whining and
12 > contortions when it doesn't work. This isn't a situation where
13 > compromise is necessary, so there's no reason not to just do it
14 > properly.
15
16 Yeah, I guess you're right. ;-)
17 --
18 Thanks,
19 Zac