On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:25:52 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > What makes me wonder more are the proposed solutions: So far the > > only proposals I've seen are either inlining *all* the code or > > moving *all* the code into an eclass. Having a quick look at > > autoconf, it seems to me an intermediate solution would work > > perfectly fine for the above goals/rules: Put main.eblit into an > > eclass. The loading code then would access $FILESDIR only in src_* > > phases. This would likely work better for all parties and would > > allow to focus on better specifying this gray area of PMS instead. > > But is it desirable as a goal, that all packages in the tree use > regular eclasses, but two packages (autoconf and glibc) use something > else that is a "grey area"? No. Unless I've missed something, in which case please point it out, main.eblit is generic enough to be an eclass and if called only from src_* phases, it gets the whole thing out of this grey area.
