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 1O3yBH-0001oV-B0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:07:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF6B5E0A6E; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.jhcloos.com (eagle.jhcloos.com [207.210.242.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE51E094A for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:06:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eagle.jhcloos.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id 36B1840219; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:06:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=jhcloos.com; s=eagle; t=1271711190; bh=hcX8H7KRmWDF3//9+5UgwFHOJwK9ldM0YI9ZdjxJg6s=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=WW8+vXEAGcgTwmwiKjjJCRaHfrwKRk+rRxlOCQPtjZ+2EUARO4j5qybcP1hD8RgQg LtxUzqslPODeZIyMDk+rWs4QY9BLM5uedX318YbcM2qtv6ts29L+W58TLIH6je5wQj VjYgkzmZXVukUjSJuFn5YWw6tLkEjY/HztiPfV9s= Received: from lugabout.jhcloos.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lugabout.jhcloos.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92918A00F2 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:59:46 +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: <20100418084502.49030e16@snowmobile> (Ciaran McCreesh's message of "Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:45:02 +0100") References: <20100330111154.GA28735@veller.net> <4BB536DC.8090405@gentoo.org> <4BBB7FDE.7090306@gentoo.org> <4BC3A301.3040400@gentoo.org> <20100416212806.7bc6b307@snowmobile> <20100418084502.49030e16@snowmobile> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (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: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:59:21 -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: 1:30:100419:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org::rkOCXKbbfbTzYunL:000000000000000000000000000000000WLLmq X-Archives-Salt: 5bdc213a-faea-4e0b-b124-7dce0ad64206 X-Archives-Hash: 05363f62d75f3eed9f0643ab04d56dc0 >>>>> "CM" == Ciaran McCreesh writes: CM> There's no need to offer the user the choice to do something that is CM> always broken. Your car doesn't have a "connect the exhaust fumes to CM> the air conditioning intake" button. Overriding portage's eclasses with one's own is not "always broken"; your analogy is not at all on point. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6