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 0DDEE1389E2 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:07:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB83EE0B12; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f175.google.com (mail-ie0-f175.google.com [209.85.223.175]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 86A10E0AC8 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:06:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f175.google.com with SMTP id at20so8710832iec.6 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:06:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=V7CZrg5QGVzoG3H4UshR0ljTZ4KyO2ajbQ6af6zgjJ0=; b=KK/jI30/8JnshqFTfLD69pQ1hhhYKxD4DSHsXz9mOzJmEUAcnBUNf350NoRVkFLz5W kJ5cgOzXTdn3dlapdIArNM7Gw/bKUBV79g1CHOHRnJUMRNTUj6LGjWzitaJghraRQ3wS HSj/d3qD22jhmiiwpKM2Kb1ZJHHu5kYah+fSQ2LRbjacW+p0Pit42fzHdN8/gYZ50TNq hVNdm4Urd/i7s5Zww05ft/x5rTJO5RyhvNBFNKaSj4dGUFe0cfy4gXA4+HUHhR9qR/SS OOMHOiHs2+JdeZw1yWZIfVboVEH3o6nj4Z49QmAoRvQCp2usJKeWnV81XDnLec32F1+w 247g== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.239.208 with SMTP id kx16mr24788841icb.40.1416841611526; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:06:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.120.228 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:06:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <5470D229.7000806@tampabay.rr.com> <5470DBF5.1060304@gentoo.org> <547111B5.2030909@gentoo.org> <547264C8.7030704@gentoo.org> <54727804.5060205@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:06:51 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ? From: Sid S To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11332660f5488e05089c241a X-Archives-Salt: 5a8f9aca-52be-46c6-adbf-4bdda2218f5d X-Archives-Hash: fdbecfb49640f76dd7fffcca0decbdcf --001a11332660f5488e05089c241a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Oh. I've had to use that, even. I was thinking patches of ebuilds. (???) On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Sid S wrote: > > > >>Today, ebuilds don't even let a chance for an admin to apply a series of > >>patches to the vanilla/distro-maintainer sources without having to > >>rewrite/fork the ebuild. > > > > There isn't a way to specify ebuild properties in a way like command line > > arguments? Where you can explicitly silence options by specifying them > > later, etc? > > > > Any environment-level property can be overridden at the command line, > though this does not include patching. > > However, the original claim is still wrong - you just stick the > patches in /etc/portage/patches. This only works for ebuilds that > call epatch_user right now, but for EAPI6 it will work for all > packages. > > -- > Rich > > --001a11332660f5488e05089c241a Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Oh. I've had to use that, even. I was thinking patches= of ebuilds. (???)

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Rich Freeman = <rich0@gentoo.org<= /a>> wrote:
On= Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Sid S <r030t1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Today, ebuilds don't even let a chance for an admin to apply a = series of
>>patches to the vanilla/distro-maintainer sources without having to<= br> >>rewrite/fork the ebuild.
>
> There isn't a way to specify ebuild properties in a way like comma= nd line
> arguments? Where you can explicitly silence options by specifying them=
> later, etc?
>

Any environment-level property can be overridden at the command line= ,
though this does not include patching.

However, the original claim is still wrong - you just stick the
patches in /etc/portage/patches.=C2=A0 This only works for ebuilds that
call epatch_user right now, but for EAPI6 it will work for all
packages.

--
Rich


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