On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:07:01 +0200
Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Do you prefer having everything hardcoded in PMS or can you accept
> outsourcing bigger code pieces into some sort of eclass (i am thinking
> about some external code base, which can be duplicated by the package
> manager with internal code, but has to be used, if the external eclass
> has a newer version/revision then the duplicated internal code)?

The package manager mustn't require any particular eclass to be
present, and there mustn't be duplication between eclasses and the
package manager.

> I am especially thinking about the setup of the environment and the
> code details for the wrappers for binaries and headers, hardcoding
> those details into PMS makes it hard to change/fix issues later on.

Sounds like you haven't really got a clean design then.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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