Santiago M. Mola wrote: > Vaeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [...] The suggestion violates in an extreme way the golden design > > rule that small changes in effect should require small changes in source. [...]
> Yes, you're right. That would be really tedious and stupid... but > we're lucky, and EAPI-2 introduced the 'default' function. So if you > need to do a small change not covered by this method, you just define > the phase, make the little change, and then call the 'default' > function. Clean and simple. How does this "little change" look like if you have to call ./autogen.sh instead of ./configure? Or if you want to call a second ./configure in some subdirectory with the same options but one option changed? These are just some examples, I hope that the point becomes clear: You simply cannot cover all natural modifications which might be necessary unless you really can access the commands themselves; and for this reason it is wise IMHO to have default functions which are as short as possible (and which are in particular not dealing with complex implicit array arguments).
