From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nz9kk-0001NM-77 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:27:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABA2FE0B33; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com (eagle.jhcloos.com [207.210.242.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEB25E0B0D for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:27:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 433DA4024D; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:26:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1270564031; bh=56o4og+sg/W0e7SF5NJxCi/wD5FNEPVLSMFq0orz+hc=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=TY63CvE42yRz5JUmsEGl5PQr9hbtAJbcfy+EhE//XvweT0K7/B1j1IUEn9skdM/Se ZiQsLI9cx8i7hZmXfXHCARQSnyEOshKVJRQKIp2Lx2fRzAJtrt4N/IQpSSNtUbqPXo wip1tC7XrCVZyDicBzc1pFnYneLoExMcH5l808QM= Received: by lugabout.jhcloos.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 067E4A011E; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:23:22 +0000 (UTC) From: James Cloos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl eclass review - EAPI=3 + new helper eclass In-Reply-To: <4BB536DC.8090405@gentoo.org> (Zac Medico's message of "Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:14:20 -0700") References: <20100330111154.GA28735@veller.net> <4BB536DC.8090405@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAABHNCSVQICAgIfAhkiAAAAI1J REFUOE+lU9ESgCAIg64P1y+ngUdxhl5H8wFbbM0OmUiEhKkCYaZThXCo6KE5sCbA1DDX3genvO4d eBQgEMaM5qy6uWk4SfBYfdu9jvBN9nSVDOKRtwb+I3epboOsOX5pZbJNsBJFvmQQ05YMfieIBnYX FK2N6dOawd97r/e8RjkTLzmMsiVgrAoEugtviCM3v2WzjgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Copyright: Copyright 2009 James Cloos OpenPGP: ED7DAEA6; url=http://jhcloos.com/public_key/0xED7DAEA6.asc OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:22:58 -0400 Message-ID: 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=us-ascii X-Hashcash: 1:30:100406:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org::vWcblmHPPfNEIUDl:0000000000000000000000000000000002yr46 X-Archives-Salt: 164fa18d-4819-4f72-81d0-cc8292a7aa72 X-Archives-Hash: 9a198bb86cfb19e82eedc4dc3218f678 >>>>> "ZM" == Zac Medico writes: ZM> You can configure eclass override behavior via eclass-overrides in ZM> /etc/portage/repos.conf, as documented in `man portage`. ,----< From that manpage > | When using eclass-overrides, due to bug #276264, you must ensure that | your portage tree does not contain a metadata/cache/ directory. `---- Which translates into "eclass-orderrides are completely and entirely useless, so don't bother. Portage used to used to search for eclasses starting in the top overlay; it should not have changed. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6