>>>>> On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Michał Górny wrote: >> > It's better to have a function to obtain that directory rather than for >> > ebuilds to hardcode it. >> >> Why?
> For better consistency, I'd say. Especially if we decide to fix Gentoo > and start using the standard path, we'd need only to modify the eclass > rather than all involved packages. But why should it be a function? Its return value is constant, so a variable defined in the eclass seems more natural. Ulrich
