From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1So80D-0001N3-FE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:03:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 028A9E05E8; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 07:03:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f195.google.com (mail-we0-f195.google.com [74.125.82.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B248E0459 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 07:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werl57 with SMTP id l57so212302wer.10 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:02:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; bh=d2PpPgb29+3tTtx6gYAELekxo0i+1bQZX0wRszGaRx8=; b=oKkHb8ykDxsVNlVT2jtAkna+hbzJ7fwNTdv1TtCKOG4nnr2avFiMOdK0Q5Vl78dqlx yr4mnEH2I+uhnJODOJ0grHHWKYzAlGFlxVlDB2k9KwAHWPaFPifjfKReWRneT/32KuPG 3B3a9nP2BGw/2/mjGlCepWiJx7+RyY3JQ0d3+FpVZlswtct9obdN+niY/J/GWYMjaKZh 4TdrOD7kYjw/0IfirVZ5lM7tj5WdqYPqkSYnkJfpHbgTMQS68cNlJe2gZzqQ9SQKPhqG za9paEKS20NxFa6F+KCQvHE9x9T7aMFo+Dy/kibhXym71XiDTzlhuLqzoWhoEm7R4Pts GZeg== Received: by 10.180.78.33 with SMTP id y1mr27012973wiw.3.1341817341733; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cpc13-broo7-2-0-cust130.14-2.cable.virginmedia.com. [82.9.16.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d10sm32757802wiy.3.2012.07.09.00.02.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 08:02:12 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] base.eclass Message-ID: <20120709080212.2162cbd2@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <201207082340.35191.dilfridge@gentoo.org> References: <4FF9C825.2060705@necoro.eu> <20120708221002.7accacb0@pomiocik.lan> <201207082340.35191.dilfridge@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/=VqH6L101P=tEvXr5LPAd_R"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: f03fc91e-d55e-4da8-9bed-38ab24ef6a90 X-Archives-Hash: 6129271b5dc14d15bdc1ca5e1f07ccb8 --Sig_/=VqH6L101P=tEvXr5LPAd_R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 23:40:29 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > A lot of (inheriting eclasses and) packages depend on features > provided by base.eclass (e.g., PATCHES), which are pretty neat and > which I would sorely miss. So I would certainly object to deprecating > base.eclass, unless its relevant functionality is only moving to a > better place. Then you should ask for EAPI support for PATCHES, or write the code manually, or put the code in a small eclass that just does that. But note that the Council has voted against having either arguments or global scope variables to enhance default phase functions. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/=VqH6L101P=tEvXr5LPAd_R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/6gfgACgkQ96zL6DUtXhGBKQCfYjxHcVrZ3VOkpNh3jBKn5E8h iv0AoIb0YwoHkNtkytlCawMTxIMUje9Y =OO79 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/=VqH6L101P=tEvXr5LPAd_R--