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 1SrWyP-00075X-Kt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:19:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5AB1E0478; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:19:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rrzmta2.uni-regensburg.de (rrzmta2.uni-regensburg.de [194.94.155.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0235FE0521 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:18:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rrzmta2.uni-regensburg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B1FC7806 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:18:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from grenadine.localnet (pc59050.uni-regensburg.de [132.199.102.87]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: hua59129) by rrzmta2.uni-regensburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 86D854484 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:18:48 +0200 (CEST) From: "Andreas K. Huettel" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] epatch still no helper function? [from eutils.eclass] Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:18:35 +0200 Message-ID: <3547364.aZtTPijkF8@grenadine> User-Agent: KMail/4.9 rc2 (Linux/3.4.4-gentoo; KDE/4.8.97; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <5006D73E.2070704@gentoo.org> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: fb7cdeec-9622-41b9-a06b-f5f54d2aacb2 X-Archives-Hash: e7b9fadd532ecc9a9f7e59874afc14dc > 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. > > 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 :) > You know, that's actually a pretty good case *for* base.eclass, eutils.eclass and similar... we should probably move more functions there... :D -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing