[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] distutils-r1.eclass: Do not apply patches if DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL is used

[Mike Gilbert]

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> Do not apply PATCHES and user patches (either via the EAPI 6 default or
> pre-EAPI 5 code) when DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL is being used. In this case,
> distutils functions are usually called conditionally, in a subdirectory,
> while both PATCHES and user patches are usually intended to be applied
> top-level.
>
> There is no ebuild relying on distutils-r1_src_prepare applying patches
> with DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL. In fact, there are ebuilds which work around
> this behavior.

Sounds ok.