On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 11:23:56 +0200
Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> > > - what do I, as en ebuild writer, gain from this?    
> > 
> > Reliable patching. Unlike epatch, eapply will not succeed when
> > the patch unexpectedly applied to the wrong directory.  
> 
> Why not, but when exactly would eapply fail where epatch wouldn't
> while it should have ?

I already told you. When -p1 patch only adds files, epatch is going to
merrily apply it as -p0.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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