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On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:05:51 -0500
Jonathan Callen <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> On 02/24/2013 10:53 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > I think that base.eclass is silently intended for removal at some
> > point in the future. While we're here, we should probably mark it
> > deprecated.
> > 
> 
> The problem with deprecating base.eclass and telling people to use
> autotools-utils.eclass instead is that base.eclass also defines a
> src_prepare that is used for eclasses that support *non*-autotools
> build systems, such as cmake-utils.eclass.  Requiring that support to
> be copied around to each of the eclasses that currently inherits base
> would allow the usual issues with copying code around.

If something inherits base.eclass, it should stop. autotools-utils used
to do that but I removed the inherit because of base_src_unpack() which
was exported for no reason and caused trouble with VCS eclasses.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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