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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:06:51 -0600
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?
From: Sid S <r030t1@gmail.com>
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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> 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
> >>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
>
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Oh. I&#39;ve had to use that, even. I was thinking patches=
 of ebuilds. (???)<br></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gm=
ail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Rich Freeman <span dir=3D"ltr">=
&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:rich0@gentoo.org" target=3D"_blank">rich0@gentoo.org<=
/a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:=
0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=3D"">On=
 Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Sid S &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:r030t1@gmail.com=
">r030t1@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;Today, ebuilds don&#39;t even let a chance for an admin to apply a =
series of<br>
&gt;&gt;patches to the vanilla/distro-maintainer sources without having to<=
br>
&gt;&gt;rewrite/fork the ebuild.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; There isn&#39;t a way to specify ebuild properties in a way like comma=
nd line<br>
&gt; arguments? Where you can explicitly silence options by specifying them=
<br>
&gt; later, etc?<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
</span>Any environment-level property can be overridden at the command line=
,<br>
though this does not include patching.<br>
<br>
However, the original claim is still wrong - you just stick the<br>
patches in /etc/portage/patches.=C2=A0 This only works for ebuilds that<br>
call epatch_user right now, but for EAPI6 it will work for all<br>
packages.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Rich<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div>

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