Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping (or enabling only on request) bootstrap from SCM eclasses

2009-09-24 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: Because SCM bootstrap is either not used at all, or used very rarely, there's suggestion to: - either drop it - or (preferably) to make SCM eclasses export src_prepare only on specific request - or to make it easier - to not export it at all -

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-python/pyxf86config and dev-python/rhpxl

2009-09-24 Thread Rémi Cardona
# Rémi Cardona r...@gentoo.org (24 Sep 2009) # Both require xorg-server's libxf86config library which is busted # and they both have no maintainer. See bug #222683 # Masked for removal in 30 days dev-python/pyxf86config dev-python/rhpxl Cheers, Rémi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping (or enabling only on request) bootstrap from SCM eclasses

2009-09-24 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Thursday 24 of September 2009 08:32:53 Ulrich Mueller wrote: It's all about making live - tagged ebuild synchronization easier. Currently Not a good idea, IMHO. In pre-EAPI-2, the SCM eclasses shadow src_unpack of base.eclass, so also no autopatching of base.eclass takes place. If we now

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Dropping (or enabling only on request) bootstrap from SCM eclasses

2009-09-24 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:39:26 +0200 Maciej Mrozowski reave...@poczta.fm wrote: And this is the problem (some people may be even unaware of it). In pre EAPI-2 it was sufficient to do the following in live ebuilds: inherit ${some_eclass} ${scm_eclass} ${scm_eclass} inherited as last one,