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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?
From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
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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