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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SNpV1-0002QI-VY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:02:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0BDEE09AD; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:02:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5C2E0986 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id q3RI1IVF020831 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:01:18 +0200 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q3RI1H9Q008335; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:01:17 +0200 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q3RI1HOU008333; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:01:17 +0200 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 Message-ID: <20378.57067.381372.698034@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:01:15 +0200 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available In-Reply-To: <4F9AD51F.6060303@gentoo.org> References: <20120415021641.1858ffde@gentoo.org> <4F8A885C.3050508@gentoo.org> <20120418185913.3d2fa68f@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> <201204181340.00474.vapier@gentoo.org> <20120418184138.50153e57@googlemail.com> <4F8F05E9.5070103@gentoo.org> <4F8F0929.2010109@googlemail.com> <4F8F18EC.3000707@gentoo.org> <4F8F3513.2060202@googlemail.com> <20120425224433.2fa0f2de@gentoo.org> <4F98EA90.4000403@gentoo.org> <4F9967DE.8000601@gentoo.org> <4F99F941.90705@gentoo.org> <20120427162051.13554e1a@pomiocik.lan> <4F9AD51F.6060303@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 23.4.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: 7778b9e7-2e45-44e5-8111-8b5f87ca8aba X-Archives-Hash: 5b9883f2336415f7c32291abd193af81 >>>>> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Zac Medico wrote: > Since we've managed to survive up to this point without such a > feature, I think it's worth the wait roll it into EAPI 5 and have a > clean solution that doesn't rely on package manager interaction with > eclasses. If we quickly draft an EAPI 5 spec, there's still have > time to have it approved at the next council meeting. Did I get it right, you are thinking about a special EAPI only for user patches? I'd say that the feature is not important enough to justify that. Ulrich