Here's v3. Ulm suggested to get rid of the global EPATCH_N_APPLIED_PATCHES variable so that EAPI 6' environment stays clean.
Thomas Deutschmann (1): eutils.eclass: Show death notice only when user patches were really applied eclass/eutils.eclass | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.9.3