On Saturday 02 August 2003 22:50, Kumba wrote:
> Isn't the only time we want to avoid this on a kernel ebuild?  There was
> an email many weeks ago on -dev I think (mighta been -core) which said
> to avoid using epatch on kernel sources, due to it's brute-force method.
>   Also, what about "xpatch"?  I had heard of this mechanism used awhile
> ago, but not recently.

this was meant as a general heads up ... i'm sure the kernel team can handle 
the kernel ebuilds just fine themselves ;)

as for xpatch, i havent utilized it myself and havent looked into it ... right 
now 'epatch' is in portage, 'xpatch' is not ... it doesnt really matter too 
much since if we upgrade all packages to use epatch, we can easily switch 
over to 'xpatch'

pkgs that currently use xpatch:
app-text/a2ps
-mike