On Monday 21 May 2012 19:24:27 Francesco Riosa wrote: > 2012/5/22 Mike Frysinger: > > On Monday 21 May 2012 19:01:04 Francesco Riosa wrote: > >> 2012/5/22 Mike Frysinger: > >> > On Monday 21 May 2012 18:16:25 Markos Chandras wrote: > >> >> Excuse me but the way this change was handled is a bit depressing. > >> >> First, the ebuilds should have been fixed to inherit eutils and then > >> >> remove eutils from autotools. Now, a bunch of ebuilds are broken out > >> >> of nowhere. I don't believe this issue was that urgent in order to > >> >> justify the significant breakage of portage tree. > >> > > >> > you're assuming the breakage was intentional. i also wouldn't really > >> > describe it as "significant", but that's just quibbling over an > >> > insignificant aspect. > >> > >> It's intentional not to revert the change, it's significant because it > >> involve a number of significant packages like icu, vim and boost, some > >> of them already marked stable (from a fast grep from the one mentioned > >> in the previous posts). > > > > you've identified the broke things. so fix them. > > wanna give me commit access for few hours?
just join as a dev and get it over with ;P > I've already done mass changes to the tree when introducing > virtual/mysql seem something doable the same way. seems people have already fixed most (if not all) errors related to autotools.eclass -mike
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