Oh. I've had to use that, even. I was thinking patches of ebuilds. (???) On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Sid S <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>Today, ebuilds don't even let a chance for an admin to apply a series of > >>patches to the vanilla/distro-maintainer sources without having to > >>rewrite/fork the ebuild. > > > > There isn't a way to specify ebuild properties in a way like command line > > arguments? Where you can explicitly silence options by specifying them > > later, etc? > > > > Any environment-level property can be overridden at the command line, > though this does not include patching. > > However, the original claim is still wrong - you just stick the > patches in /etc/portage/patches. This only works for ebuilds that > call epatch_user right now, but for EAPI6 it will work for all > packages. > > -- > Rich > >
