From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5909D13829B for ; Sun, 29 May 2016 12:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 837EC1432F; Sun, 29 May 2016 12:29:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f196.google.com (mail-ig0-f196.google.com [209.85.213.196]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A20014322 for ; Sun, 29 May 2016 12:29:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f196.google.com with SMTP id u4so3650580igl.2 for ; Sun, 29 May 2016 05:29:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to; bh=taBE1OlCIMU/Mg1Lo4nKbqPiPshrdKaKOU3rcHz5oHw=; b=JaWX12lahSVgiVl0p6alT9C2avdkWFNbqiEDdadtRKPSxLDkVr0pZdAy7v1YdxiyY9 LZ7UZkd+NylPYtuZfoML0LXACJfjilBRk5nBM7X9wpFJ4FeLNMeXjjNfonOZ5e7pLZ9F CvWk3N7IogWueBDrASDzs3YMPik5aHwfxofx1UpW3sX3dBVnFXJd16Z/8rd7jRTTntWP Y1j+Ac3I9fuvLsR+aErJIv0PPy80q5ZtQtyHvs4jVOihhjx7Gfk/7Irf9M7YG5VrWVwq ooKTIjk4NGxGZCBO4c9RnfAcaMKSzO+ryPymzv/zkxcT1qZs+AQhbGbQkY6lbicvHVoK Sk7A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to; bh=taBE1OlCIMU/Mg1Lo4nKbqPiPshrdKaKOU3rcHz5oHw=; b=UtZNj7ztXYTEOrPfDQ5yIHEvDMsR3JjEDpcdMmVJbtddok+TioJH9HlgMbDbxEhKZI l+5LXAH4LxJsBUTs2cBov5h+w/FUx86H4jmu0eTOLEUJIuxhJAULwnN8QJIxg2GdQ9qM E+IW+0zS52wt5zIVDHbqoWyFSdhrNLRH6RmnJ/O3g13lBpZZSnzqio5/SbmOtqsxxKlO yzxqCI/v71lZO2x6YbJk9ixKBf3JtQMFINZ8XXNYgjSDnkEn64SsuvRpVJJJXJ7hcHtO u4xlAhcmDbvx6PNeEElqu/j19CFS0jNCxmtrWfpwSs+kfCujYOv2r1WUigtePJu6N48+ bRIw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tKaDQSLyxnI8bdM7CqyhGJ8D8IGMBtmN7ksKvjf7DFFUc0/sFbdaqjjpPU25d0dTBNJVzuXN7QR3/VKYg== 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 X-Received: by 10.50.110.71 with SMTP id hy7mr4278760igb.97.1464524960595; Sun, 29 May 2016 05:29:20 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.159.8 with HTTP; Sun, 29 May 2016 05:29:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <22346.42902.412224.358607@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <66d4acaa-4c75-540f-eb65-4f7b40e40b02@gentoo.org> <22346.42902.412224.358607@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 08:29:20 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: GVh7RS2o70Kypnrkz4DDOHP8QAQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] What are eblits? From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 4e8d80e6-bf13-46c3-abb8-4de99396bbc2 X-Archives-Hash: e1ff77de8ab06383efda873e2ce20cd7 On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 4:25 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, 29 May 2016, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> What I would love to see is this be standardized. An eclass or a >> GLEP seems like the logical approach. > > If there really is a need for such a feature, we should rather follow > an approach like the per-package eclasses previously suggested by mabi > and antarus [1], and support a pkg-inherit function in the next EAPI. > (Though I wouldn't add a new function, but add an option to inherit, > like "inherit -p".) > A GLEP, then... -- Rich