On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:31:17PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
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> > The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will avoid
> > all the silliness of people repeatedly changing their minds about
> > which phase should do the eautoreconf calls and so on.
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> a) Is this really an issue for maintainers?
As someone who has worked with exheres, I very much want this phase for
EAPI 2. It makes things simpler and more logical. Why should patching be
done in _unpack? It shouldn't, and that's a reason why _prepare should
be added.
> b) Does it really matter?
To me, yes