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Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> The other night, some of us in #gentoo-uk got talking about per-category and
> per-package eclasses, the idea being that each category, and each package,
> could have it's own 'eclass' subdirectory containing category- or
> package-local eclasses. This in addition to having global eclasses in
> gentoo-x86/eclass.
>
> For example (totally hypothetical), the php-sapi* eclasses would be a primse
> example of a category-local eclass (their only used by the PHP SAPI ebuilds).
>
> I can't find any eclasses that exist currently that'd be a good example of a
> local-eclass, but hopefully you get the idea.
>
> Thoughts ? Anything I've missed ciaranm ? :)
I like the idea. cron.eclass would definitely fit in sys-process/eclass/
(although could we move existing eclasses anyways?).
I definitely see an advantage to package local eclasses (any package with a
non-trivial build system). All non version-specific stuff could be kept there.
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Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[ BSD | cron | forensics | shell-tools | commonbox | netmon | vim | web-apps ]
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