On 04/15/12 16:16, Ryan Hill wrote: > Right now we have support in some packages for user patches - those being > patches dropped into /etc/portage/patches/pkgname/ - which are automatically > applied. Because this feature is implemented by epatch_user() in > eutils.eclass, it is only available for ebuilds that inherit eutils and > explicitly call epatch_user or inherit another eclass that calls it in an > exported phase (eg. base). The end result is a very inconsistent experience, > where user patches may or may not work not only on a package-by-package > basis, but ebuild-by-ebuild. > > Is there any reason why this couldn't just be done in the package manager, > making user patches available for all ebuilds without code changes? >
>From a debugging / bug wrangling perspective it's bad because there's no way for me to see if someone accidentally patched in something unexpected. (And we do have creative users :) ) It's a neat feature, but I'm moderately opposed to it unless we can get reporting in place so I can definitely see (e.g. from a logfile or error message) that there's been some ebuild modifications.
