On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 04:39:36PM +0700, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
> HI there!
> 
> Some time ago I invented patches.eclass, which facilitates my work with 
> patches, and I would like you to express your opinion about it and whether it 
> is worth committing in gentoo repo.
While I like it for ease of rapid development, conceptually, this
worries me.

Presently, if you add a new patch, you need to edit an ebuild, which
provides a strong hint that you might need to revbump the ebuild per
development best practices:
https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/index.html

If this eclass was used, there would no longer be revbumps, and you
could not revert to the old version simply by reinstalling the prior
version.

Is there a way we can get the best of both worlds?

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