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 1SrY5w-0007t1-Sc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:31:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 559E0E04C7; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:30:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f67.google.com (mail-wg0-f67.google.com [74.125.82.67]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA46FE049A for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:30:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdt10 with SMTP id dt10so218815wgb.10 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:30:10 -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=zmcA4pG4MYx0NULu1J/w134XF6QBcr7E7nxGQP5fpfM=; b=BH3bvRFHZHtcoor0oG+bH3del9HQavY+/HdBiMBpMiKT4ggtvsUZ7qh244RqhkKwEH dM8Q5azpaEAgGgGs28NdiESjMeLdFIBHjQ+qEqeBZ/0gwk98HR7CK680Pk7FXthiUXu4 hEuwfJQ/RM20FP7LjfGej5INw2urTKcTxyJWmNKoWpDria9enoYL0Ox8xowjbm1l0Z2Q vGHvm7VOQZuKs7f0E1w4XdkRM7RmJJka1t29VYoqAqn6TWJBZcVH2etARK38mXzRAp8z JYFZ/7BxeJlw/UKGVK7MfMYQlIZ6xplaEKBlbSEUZ78WWUD98QC3YOpjFpGRcHXaIXYw AI1w== Received: by 10.180.109.166 with SMTP id ht6mr8476531wib.11.1342632610690; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:30:10 -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 de10sm3796309wib.7.2012.07.18.10.30.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:30:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:29:41 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] epatch still no helper function? [from eutils.eclass] Message-ID: <20120718182941.5444bfcc@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <3547364.aZtTPijkF8@grenadine> References: <5006D73E.2070704@gentoo.org> <3547364.aZtTPijkF8@grenadine> 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_/ADB5EAFcSFuYOvmYZmEnkAv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: efa5707a-dc26-4dbd-b6df-4b01a5bbd10e X-Archives-Hash: 12f22bf75b3baf626d8f8267526da4e2 --Sig_/ADB5EAFcSFuYOvmYZmEnkAv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:18:35 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:33 PM, hasufell > > wrote: > > > "epatch" is so widely used and basic that I wonder why it's still > > > not implemented as a real helper function. > >=20 > > Because then its harder to change, it must be in PMS, otherwise you > > have to do things like test which version of epatch the package > > manager provides....sounds a lot like EAPI :) > >=20 >=20 > You know, that's actually a pretty good case *for* base.eclass, > eutils.eclass and similar... we should probably move more functions > there... :D=20 I'm not sure that having to make sure you don't break ten thousand packages whenever you make a change is a good case... When it's EAPI controlled, if a change causes problems, it doesn't break anything. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/ADB5EAFcSFuYOvmYZmEnkAv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAG8ocACgkQ96zL6DUtXhFAcwCgmypRNSyffCn+qpfJa5XQCVz5 hfgAoJVfEcng4fZEZAWfHiBdLqLG5DvP =0/Pj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ADB5EAFcSFuYOvmYZmEnkAv--