On 2012-05-22 03:46, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
On May 20, autools.eclass was changed to no longer inherit eutils, see
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/eclass/autotools.eclass?r1=1.133&r2=1.134
Relying on autotools.eclass for your eutils needs was always a terrible
idea, but a few ebuilds did it anyway. Those ebuilds are now *broken*
since they can no longer use epatch. See bug #416847 for an example.
Check your ebuilds to make sure you inherit eutils in anything that uses
epatch!
-Alexandre Rostovtsev.
Since eutils inherits multilib and user, the breakage extends beyond epatch.
For example, I just saw bug #417153, where a user reported failed calls
to enew{user,group}.
