On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:31:09 +0200 Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > The rationale is that we cannot apply patches in the default > > src_prepare() unless there is a patch function in the package > > manager itself. Obviously the default phase cannot call a function > > from an eclass. > > well, that was the idea behind base.eclass :) > why not just improving it ?
No, the idea behind base.eclass was that somehow ebuilds were "object oriented", and that whenever you had "object oriented" you had to have a single base class for everything. It was a silly idea and we should all be glad it has been forgotten. > - why should I ever want eapi6 src_prepare instead of > base_src_prepare ? Well base.eclass is supposed to be being removed, and is allegedly banned for all new ebuilds... But the big gain for everyone is in replacing a weird, overly clever and highly fragile collection of weirdness that's designed to mostly accept any dodgy input, with one that just gets you to give it a sane input to begin with. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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