On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:30:41 +0200 Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> El dom, 23-09-2012 a las 13:13 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:03:56 +0200 > > Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > That would be better as there are a ton of ebuilds not inheritting > > > autotools-utils.eclass even being autotools based (think for example in > > > gnome packages or many others) > > > > You could fix those ebuilds to inherit it too ;). autotools-utils was > > especially designed to use out-of-source builds for multilib > > in the future. > > > > I'm afraid the 'upper level' is technically impossible without either > > going into PM itself (which means waiting for EAPI 6 at least > > and getting some scary logic into it) or reinventing the phases alike > > ruby-ng/python-distutils-ng. Well, the latter may be useful to some > > degree; still, it would require each ebuild to redefine all phases. > > > > Then, I think that main blocker to use autotools-utils.eclass more > widely is that it needs at least eapi2, then, I am unsure if all > packages currently shipped in emul packages could bump their eapi due > compat with old systems. I doubt that is an important problem anymore, considering that portage requires at least EAPI 2 (and some ebuilds use EAPI 3 already). -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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