On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:43:37 -0700 Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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 1) Because it's ugly hack, 2) it will have to interact with epatch_user anyway (at least to avoid applying patches twice), 3) it will work only for new/modified ebuilds so won't differ at all from using epatch_user(). -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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