Am Sonntag 08 Juli 2012, 22:10:02 schrieb Michał Górny:
> On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 19:49:25 +0200
> 
> René Neumann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'd like just to receive a short clarification about the 'status' of
> > base.eclass: Is this eclass expected to be available everywhere, i.e.
> > should each eclass make sure it imports and incorporates it. Or is it
> > just an eclass like the others and ebuilds should make sure they
> > inherit it if needed?
> 
> No. It is unmaintained, has serious design flaws and it simply should
> not be used anywhere. At least in EAPI != [01].

Please clarify this. 

A lot of (inheriting eclasses and) packages depend on features provided by 
base.eclass (e.g., PATCHES), which are pretty neat and which I would sorely 
miss. So I would certainly object to deprecating base.eclass, unless its 
relevant functionality is only moving to a better place.

-- 

Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
[email protected]
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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