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 7E6731389E2 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:41:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C34D6E0B14; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:41:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f180.google.com (mail-ie0-f180.google.com [209.85.223.180]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D89EE0AF9 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:41:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f180.google.com with SMTP id rp18so8400474iec.25 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 04:41:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=Clff9y0bK79bf5sZheA6m/WgPhPvB69ypUYgNTGq5yc=; b=KRtrGEW7UUoykd3/Vo5zktkYwVtEz7XgFm6xYk1DqHcF6QuLGICIHjRuym8N2NzGUf lSxhm0dEb3qU+XGlxNXZJAM1qGW7GuIOzu2Y7DhJFXKGYXSC9q5n87PLWSM1wMgGoen1 zwNN30icG4YTICTcvSWHTsnaHqXkavQD6UPb7J2kygJRPwYM3tZkkbxtdOZ9tdxznTil XFI6lNhXiTq2m1awIxDsKS18dIQmhn/3keMptj4nAz0zFnSxFeo7fo466xAxOOpJzbSk HynZKxQAPUw19TcQf4YfcLhl3mjRyvBrAL/lqfVyBR4vEbZVrY6UxuhCqC7g9AUa0r2n bu/g== 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 10.107.12.234 with SMTP id 103mr16377765iom.71.1416832881749; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 04:41:21 -0800 (PST) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.9.80 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 04:41:21 -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 07:41:21 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: N_OQFm5rGkPiqgnzReO0lDLgLmg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ? From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 71804585-8793-4f52-a7b8-687a42cf0bbc X-Archives-Hash: e6eab40f08e9b2380e63c55b1ec9f3f8 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