2014-09-13 21:03 GMT+01:00 Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se>: > I would actually expect > there to be a policy which forbids patches on live ebuilds. Make > another live ebuild or maybe an overlay if you want to offer a > different set of commits than the upstream repo. > > For me, the whole point of live ebuilds is that they are the latest > upstream code, no more, no less.
While I agree with the rest of your message, there should be exceptions from this rule IMO. For example, maintainers of my project in other distros keep a set of patches to enable building it with older compilers (as I use C++11 pretty extensively, and gcc 4.7 already cannot swallow all of it). The patches for existing code hardly change ever, probably once in a few months. This is hardly applicable to Gentoo though as corresponding ebuilds already require gcc >= 4.8. -- Georg Rudoy
