commit:     e26dd425b928996b0775ee3a01ef73e0edc2a6fb
Author:     Florian Schmaus <flo <AT> geekplace <DOT> eu>
AuthorDate: Tue Jul 21 14:19:55 2020 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Thu Jul 23 15:55:27 2020 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=e26dd425

general-concepts/portage-cache: Update example for conditional inherit

The era of "-cvs" ebuilds is long gone (does anyone still remember
those?). Instead devmanual should show a contemporary example for
conditional eclass inheritance based on git live-ebuilds.

Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <flo <AT> geekplace.eu>
[Slightly simplified example.]
Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/733428
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo.org>

 general-concepts/portage-cache/text.xml | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/general-concepts/portage-cache/text.xml 
b/general-concepts/portage-cache/text.xml
index ba9c0fa..4839fa0 100644
--- a/general-concepts/portage-cache/text.xml
+++ b/general-concepts/portage-cache/text.xml
@@ -60,17 +60,22 @@ solely upon <c>PN</c> are allowed.
 
 <p>
 As an example of a legal and possibly useful conditional inherit, some eclasses
-do:
+or ebuilds do:
 </p>
 
 <codesample lang="ebuild">
-if [[ "${PN##*-}" == "cvs" ]] ; then
-       inherit cvs
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
+       inherit git-r3
+       EGIT_REPO_URI="https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/devmanual.git";
+else
+       SRC_URI="https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/distfiles/${P}.tar.xz";
+       KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
 fi
 </codesample>
 
 <p>
-This allows the same eclass to be used for both regular and <c>-cvs</c> 
packages.
+This allows the same eclass (or the same ebuild "template") to be used for both
+regular and live packages.
 </p>
 </body>
 </section>

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