Dnia 2014-06-15, o godz. 16:06:57
"Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <m...@mva.name> napisał(a):

> My idea is to allow failing for some patches without breaking build at all. 
> And, in parallel, to 
> add groupping.
> 
> How I imagine that:
> 
> etc/portage/patches/app-cat/<name>/
>     |
>     | - group_name/
>     |     |
>     |     |- 01_foo.patch
>     |     |- 02_bar.patch
>     |     |- <...>
>     |
>     |- 01_moo.patch
>     |- 99_meow.patch
> 
> Where every first-level piece (patch or group) in 
> ```etc/portage/patches/app-cat/<name>/``` MAY 
> tolerably fail (not causing "die" for emerge), but if one of the patches 
> inside the group fails, then 
> group MUST NOT be applied at all (and all previously applied patches from 
> this group MUST be 
> reversed).

Just don't.

Or more specifically: it's not worth the effort, the extra complexity,
the confusion and the wholesale mess involved.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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