On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:39:33 -0600 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:07:20AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:00:22 -0600 Brian Harring | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | Well, what is eutils? Yes, portage thinks it's an eclass, but | > | -what- truly is it? It's bash functionality, that doesn't modify | > | the ebuild template/metadata. | > | > Wrong! eutils (and flag-o-matic, for that matter) modifies ebuild | > metadata. | Only for epatch. | <snip> | So... an eclass that wants enew(user|group) now deps on patch, w/out a | valid reason. | | You're proving my point for why elibs should exist :)
No, but I might be demonstrating why epatch should be in its own eclass, and why eutils should be split up into several smaller eclasses with eutils being changed into a compatibility eclass which just inherits all these new smaller eclasses. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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