Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] EAPI 6 draft for review

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 7:37 AM, hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 10/17/2015 08:03 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 14:49:36 +0200
>> hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> You can apply the patches post_unpack or post_src_prepare witht hooks.
>>> What's the problem?
>>
>> Running autorecrap.
>>
>
> You can do that with hooks too (which is not very clean tbh). But at
> that point, you probably want to actually fork the ebuild in an overlay
> if you need to mess with phase internals instead of relying on some
> magic that the ebuild writer might or might not have done properly.
>

This sounds like "if it isn't done perfectly it isn't worth doing."
If you're going to start by assuming that devs will always design
ebuilds incorrectly, then you might as well just fork all of Gentoo
into your overlay.  :)

People already find epatch_user useful, and I think moving it to PMS
will just make it more consistently useful.  Sure, there will be
mistakes, but right now epatch_user is optional, and in the future it
could be considered a QA issue.

-- 
Rich