On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 19:49:25 +0200 > René Neumann <li...@necoro.eu> wrote: >> I'd like just to receive a short clarification about the 'status' of >> base.eclass: Is this eclass expected to be available everywhere, i.e. >> should each eclass make sure it imports and incorporates it. Or is it >> just an eclass like the others and ebuilds should make sure they >> inherit it if needed? > > base.eclass is a historical mistake, from before the design of eclasses > was fully figured out and moved into the package manager. Unfortunately, > rather than letting it die, people keep putting things in it and using > it...
I think it would be a good idea to remove the second sentence of the description, which is clearly false. # @DESCRIPTION: # The base eclass defines some default functions and variables. Nearly # everything else inherits from here.
