From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVQaa-0006TP-F9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:45:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 405C3E02F2; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.240]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F67E02F2 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so2120949rvf.46 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:45:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=/lk9KQMCY+jtn4ICRGFWSgowG1vRNDDoo47P3uqPdyc=; b=ap5LT6VHZOZu4sAY7Q3F+Sz+/R9G51tXyAn3IkKpUaVTUsBvZlINEgN8GlKjq0LzB9 bHuhJ0sjwz/nn53O4wPAZaKT/9gVagCy2CxJ6ZVX7VJTH2yJZ8w1p8xpbh0PDLTM+R43 0ap4w5nwELh5LWVgpOG2fLDtMiEfVpKk3NU4s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=qBlTDVRi7oWd2RmmyRX7sdUt3x8IGlmeuiUBN5AcwP3yi620pg1JjZBju+oseW0Xve waEPIDr1h2FnWjw6eNcRqYyALp3BBmyzmS6ibxonbk+jRpz4GCiH5HpZw/22SDNSQ0Mw nAOm+AA18L3rvLVuaR7Ma7n6flnLyKGJIXKVc= Received: by 10.141.129.14 with SMTP id g14mr4021215rvn.50.1219149930289; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:45:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.180.16 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:45:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <82dd739f0808190545u3cb1632fj3590a6b130dd304a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:45:30 +0100 From: "Ciaran McCreesh" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2? In-Reply-To: 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-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48A298D9.3030402@gentoo.org> <20080813130329.0fe55b90@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: eb7dd7e6-0fa1-4779-aa8f-80533dcdd44d X-Archives-Hash: 701c7e320df97c0780f52cc2f77d33b7 On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Steve Long 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