On 04/26/2012 11:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:18:32 +0000 (UTC) > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> My suggestion is therefore to do the simple thing, just apply any >> patches found in the patches dir, and punt on the complicated >> do-we-eautoreconf- or-not thing. > > Agreed. Just make sure the feature will be only used for ebuilds not > calling epatch_user manually or through the eclass.
So the package manager is supposed to interact with an eclass function? That's pretty ugly. Why not just roll out a quick EAPI 5 that adds support for the "apply_user_patches_here" approach [1]? http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_c228be85e0c4e577ad194e6004d59062.xml -- Thanks, Zac
