From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01E6A139694 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:49:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15B1FE0CA7; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE6E0E0C7A for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e34:eeaa:6bd0:4ecc:6aff:fe03:1cfc]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: aballier) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2610D340FDA for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:49:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:49:15 +0100 From: Alexis Ballier To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from eblits into an eclass, #586424 Message-ID: <20170323204915.1e9abbc2@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20170323191743.5c54e7ba@snowblower> References: <20170316093806.31977-1-mgorny@gentoo.org> <1652433.oqbzW57v8l@porto> <20170323105101.0f622f66@gentoo.org> <3173924.ULbGtHHRMq@porto> <20170323143659.3c882568@gentoo.org> <20170323194101.0e6af3c2@gentoo.org> <20170323184635.3233779f@snowblower> <20170323201204.31812efd@gentoo.org> <20170323191743.5c54e7ba@snowblower> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4528d72b-34b3-4b4c-bb6d-0c8c9e7218d5 X-Archives-Hash: fcf9ea2de4c229dc8323a95179371b5a On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:17:43 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:12:04 +0100 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > However, retroactively adding new rules > > Which, as you've already been told, is not what happened. Sit back, > enjoy the tree getting slightly less terrible, and stop trying to find > alternative facts to justify standing in the way of progress. > I'm sorry but forcing people to rewrite working stuff for no reason is not progress. If someone wants to rewrite the whole tree, fine, but please fork :)