On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:14:58 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > What do you consider demand ? > > > A handful of packages that have to write a hundred lines of > > boilerplate code to make it work isn't representative of any demand > > at all. I've already written in some bug some usecases I foresee for > > even a trivial 'include'. > > See https://bugs.gentoo.org/586420#c20 (and especially the IRC log > attached there) for my opinion on the matter. > > The pre-GLEP on per-package eclasses stalled in 2010, before it even > reached the draft stage. From this I conclude that the demand cannot > be so pressing, otherwise someone would have picked it up in the > meantime. While your conclusion is definitely right, that has never been a reason to discard new features. A lot of, probably most, additions in every EAPI didn't have many pressing adopters. Some of them proved near to useless, others are now must have.
