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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:18:33 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>  * The old src_compile phase function is split into separate
>>    src_configure and src_compile fuctions.
> 
> 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?