Re: [gentoo-dev] Per-category and per-package eclasses

[Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>]

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Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> The other night, some of us in #gentoo-uk got talking about per-category and 
> per-package eclasses, the idea being that each category, and each package, 
> could have it's own 'eclass' subdirectory containing category- or 
> package-local eclasses.  This in addition to having global eclasses in 
> gentoo-x86/eclass.
> 
> For example (totally hypothetical), the php-sapi* eclasses would be a primse 
> example of a category-local eclass (their only used by the PHP SAPI ebuilds).  
> I can't find any eclasses that exist currently that'd be a good example of a 
> local-eclass, but hopefully you get the idea.
> 
> Thoughts ?  Anything I've missed ciaranm ? :)

I like the idea.  cron.eclass would definitely fit in sys-process/eclass/
(although could we move existing eclasses anyways?).

I definitely see an advantage to package local eclasses (any package with a
non-trivial build system).  All non version-specific stuff could be kept there.
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Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>
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