On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:18:35 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:33 PM, hasufell <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > "epatch" is so widely used and basic that I wonder why it's still > > > not implemented as a real helper function. > > > > Because then its harder to change, it must be in PMS, otherwise you > > have to do things like test which version of epatch the package > > manager provides....sounds a lot like EAPI :) > > > > You know, that's actually a pretty good case *for* base.eclass, > eutils.eclass and similar... we should probably move more functions > there... :D
I'm not sure that having to make sure you don't break ten thousand packages whenever you make a change is a good case... When it's EAPI controlled, if a change causes problems, it doesn't break anything. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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