On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:00:11 +0200 Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:44:30 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > [...] > > > - why should I ever want eapi6 src_prepare instead of > > > base_src_prepare ? > > > > Well base.eclass is supposed to be being removed, and is allegedly > > banned for all new ebuilds... > > > > But the big gain for everyone is in replacing a weird, overly clever > > and highly fragile collection of weirdness that's designed to mostly > > accept any dodgy input, with one that just gets you to give it a > > sane input to begin with. > > > > removing features is certainly not a gain for me > > after all, the safest program is the one that does nothing
It's a good thing we've left in all the useful features, then. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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