2012/5/22 Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org>:
> On Monday 21 May 2012 19:01:04 Francesco Riosa wrote:
>> 2012/5/22 Mike Frysinger:
>> > On Monday 21 May 2012 18:16:25 Markos Chandras wrote:
>> >> Excuse me but the way this change was handled is a bit depressing.
>> >> First, the ebuilds should have been fixed to inherit eutils and then
>> >> remove eutils from autotools. Now, a bunch of ebuilds are broken out
>> >> of nowhere. I don't believe this issue was that urgent in order to
>> >> justify the significant breakage of portage tree.
>> >
>> > you're assuming the breakage was intentional.  i also wouldn't really
>> > describe it as "significant", but that's just quibbling over an
>> > insignificant aspect.
>>
>> It's intentional not to revert the change, it's significant because it
>> involve a number of significant packages like icu, vim and boost, some
>> of them already marked stable (from a fast grep from the one mentioned
>> in the previous posts).
>
> you've identified the broke things.  so fix them.
> -mike

wanna give me commit access for few hours?
I've already done mass changes to the tree when introducing
virtual/mysql seem something doable the same way.

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