>>>>> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:36:41 -0400 > Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote: >> portage has always inserted implicit args before the args given by >> the ebuild to econf. PMS omitting the ordering information is >> simply an oversight to be clarified, not functionality that may be >> relied upon.
+1 > As you can see in the bug, we're not discussing anything related to > EAPI 0 behaviour, so this argument is irrelevant. We're discussing a > change in a later EAPI, where the change had nothing to say about > ordering. In the discussions that led to inclusion of the feature in EAPI 4, it was implicit that it would be possible to override the default. This can only work if "$@" goes after all default options. You had even claimed yourself that overriding the default with econf --enable-dependency-tracking would always be possible: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_0189c554085ac8352b5a2e05647a1d97.xml Ulrich
