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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:08:18 -0400
From: Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Per-category and per-package eclasses
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I can see the use for a category one, but I can see no point for a
package-local one, if you're going to have it specific for one
package, why not just put it in the ebuild, and have no eclass at all?
On 4/25/05, Elfyn McBratney <beu@gentoo.org> 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 ? :)
>
> Best,
> Elfyn
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