On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>> On Sat, 4 Mar 2017, Matt Turner wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> Isn't that rather pointless, given that in all non-deprecated EAPIs >>> econf will already pass --disable-silent-rules to configure? > >> I don't know. Please tell me if that is the case, and I'll be happy >> to drop the patch and close the bug. > > In EAPIs 5 and 6 the package manager itself will take care > of --disable-silent-rules: > https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-13700011.3.3.8 > > So the patch would have an effect only in EAPI 4 and older, which are > all deprecated. So IMHO it is not worth the effort.
Okay. Thank you for the information!