Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: eclass issues

2014-08-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:12 AM, hasufell wrote: > > I think the first thing to do and which already happened with e.g. > qmake-utils.eclass is to make a very strong distinction between utility > eclasses and those that export phase functions. > Discussion on IRC the other day was moving in this

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: eclass issues

2014-08-18 Thread hasufell
William Hubbs: > All, > > I spoke with mgorny on IRC and found out what his concerns are about our > current eclasses. > > First, he thinks we should get rid of base.eclass. > > I know there is work going on to get rid of it, but I haven't really > looked into the status much yet. I do agree tho

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: eclass issues

2014-08-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:38 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > The other concern he mentioned was indirectly inherited eclasses being > able to override phase functions. > So, while I'm not sure whether getting rid of the ability to inherit phase functions is practical/good/etc, I do think we need to

[gentoo-dev] rfc: eclass issues

2014-08-17 Thread William Hubbs
All, I spoke with mgorny on IRC and found out what his concerns are about our current eclasses. First, he thinks we should get rid of base.eclass. I know there is work going on to get rid of it, but I haven't really looked into the status much yet. I do agree though, we shouldn't have a general-