Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion for next bugday: Mass use deps migration

["Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>]

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Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> On Freitag, 20. Februar 2009, Petteri Räty wrote:
>> Suggestions/objections?
> 
> If you mean by "mass migration" doing that more or less blindly, I do object. 
> When an ebuild directly or indirectly inherits an eclass, which is EAPI 2 
> enabled, like base.eclass, while another isn't, you have to expect 
> side-effects. See for example media-tv/kdetv-0.8.9-r1, which features an 
> empty src_prepare to prevent the attempt to apply patches twice, temporarily.
> 
> So the first step is to get all eclasses EAPI 2 ready and even then I wouldn't 
> rule out odd cases, so changes should happen in testing and revised ebuilds 
> exclusively to assure odd cases get caught.
> 
> 
> Carsten

Yes of course not without testing the packages. The point here was also
that if you are maintaining something do the change yourself before the
next bug day. Even if the eclasses are not EAPI 2 ready you can work
around it in the ebuild by for example those empty functions.

Regards,
Petteri


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