On Apr 6, 2013 2:36 PM, "Alexandre Rostovtsev" <tetromino@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 20:08 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > 2. Patches have to apply to the top directory of the source tree with
> > 'patch -p1'. If patches are applied to sub-directories, necessary '-p'
> > argument shall be passed to 'epatch' explicitly. Developers are
> > encouraged to create patches which are compatible with 'git am'.
>
> Please don't make -p1 into a hard requirement :/
>
> There are upstreams who have different directory layouts in their scm
> tree and in their source tarballs. If I clone an upstream git repository
> to obtain a patch or to write a new patch that I will submit upstream, I
> want to be able to apply that patch in an ebuild without having to
> manually sed it to change the -p level.
>
> Specific examples of this among packages that I maintain: app-cdr/cdemu,
> app-cdr/cdemu-daemon, sys-fs/vhba. These all use the same git tree, and
> source tarballs for individual packages are created from different
> subdirectories of that git tree.
>
>

It wouldn't be; you pass the p level in as an argument, if necessary.