On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:44:30 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: [...] > > - 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. >
removing features is certainly not a gain for me after all, the safest program is the one that does nothing
