-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 04/13/2016 12:19 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 08:55:56 -0400 NP-Hardass > <np-hard...@gentoo.org> wrote: [...] >> The idea was partly due to consistency. Rather than calling >> mate_this gnome2_that, it'd provide one namespace. Additionally >> as mentioned in my initial email, since GNOME and MATE aren't >> always in synch, if the gnome2 eclass chooses to change >> something, and it's better that mate eclass stays with what we >> have, all I have to do is fill in the stub, and all ebuilds >> retain their current implementation. Otherwise, I'd have to mass >> edit all ebuilds to replace the offending gnome2_ with mate_. > > yep, makes sense > >> Furthermore, there was a discussion a long time ago about how >> functions shouldn't be called without an explicit inherit. That >> means that even if the mate eclass uses gnome2, if I opt to call >> gnome2 directly in the ebuild, I have to explicitly inherit it >> (which mostly defeats the purpose of inheriting it in the mate >> eclass). > > nah, this isnt true in your case: you can define mate.eclass' API > to always include gnome2.eclass, making it ok to use gnome2 > functions by inheriting only mate.eclass. this means you can never > drop gnome2.eclass from mate.eclass though, which may not be > desired > I'm unfamiliar with this. Do you have a reference that I can look at? > >> This has an added bonus, which is that the gnome2 eclass inherits >> gnome.org, so I have to make sure to re-inherit mate-desktop.org >> whenever gnome2 is (re)inherited to prevent all of variables like >> SRC_URI from being overwritten. Hope that I'm conveying that >> logic adequately. > > ok, maybe you could add a comment that no ebuild should inherit > both gnome2 & mate eclasses then >
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