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From: "Ciaran McCreesh" <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:45:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82dd739f0808190545u3cb1632fj3590a6b130dd304a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g8e9uu$mhq$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Steve Long
<slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> If you're doing new phases... Exheres has been using src_prepare, after
>> src_unpack, to avoid having lots of things of the form:
>>
>> src_unpack() {
>>     default
>>     patch blah
>>     eautoreconf
>> }
>>
> Besides saving one line of typing, what is the benefit of adding this new
> phase?

Uh, count again. It's not just one line of typing saved.

The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will avoid
all the silliness of people repeatedly changing their minds about
which phase should do the eautoreconf calls and so on.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh



  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-19 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-13  8:18 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2? Zac Medico
2008-08-13 12:03 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-13 21:02   ` Zac Medico
2008-08-19 11:12   ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-08-19 12:45     ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-08-19 18:01       ` Arun Raghavan
2008-08-19 18:18         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-19 20:27           ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-08-19 20:43             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-21 15:35               ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-08-21 15:58                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-22  2:26                 ` Alec Warner
2008-08-23 14:15                   ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-09-01 14:31                   ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter Volkov
2008-08-27  3:15             ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2008-08-21 17:37         ` Thomas Anderson
2008-08-13 20:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Petteri Räty
2008-08-13 21:07   ` Zac Medico
2008-08-13 22:55     ` Petteri Räty
2008-08-25 20:03 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto

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