Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposed change to base.eclass: patch || die

2005-07-29 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 29 July 2005 17:31, Mike Frysinger wrote: from a QA point of view, no package should apply a patch, have the patching fail, but continue to emerge ... who knows what kind of garbage you'll end up with This can be read as it's good to use epatch ? :P -- Diego Flameeyes Pettenò Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposed change to base.eclass: patch || die

2005-07-29 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Friday 29 July 2005 17:40, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: This can be read as it's good to use epatch ? :P It's just less text to write PATCHES=foo ..., if you don't have a src_unpack function in the particular ebuild. Carsten pgpVewopKrcSC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposed change to base.eclass: patch || die

2005-07-29 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 29 July 2005 19:02, Carsten Lohrke wrote: Don't get what you want to say... I read Diego's comment as an ironic one, that there's no need for the PATCHES variable, which is of course true, but you don't have to write src_unpack(){ foo_unpack ; epatch some_patch } just for a single