-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/09/2012 08:45 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 23:40:29 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" > <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Am Sonntag 08 Juli 2012, 22:10:02 schrieb Michał Górny: >>> On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 19:49:25 +0200 >>> >>> René Neumann <li...@necoro.eu> wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'd like just to receive a short clarification about the >>>> 'status' of base.eclass: Is this eclass expected to be >>>> available everywhere, i.e. should each eclass make sure it >>>> imports and incorporates it. Or is it just an eclass like the >>>> others and ebuilds should make sure they inherit it if >>>> needed? >>> >>> No. It is unmaintained, has serious design flaws and it simply >>> should not be used anywhere. At least in EAPI != [01]. >> >> Please clarify this. >> >> A lot of (inheriting eclasses and) packages depend on features >> provided by base.eclass (e.g., PATCHES), which are pretty neat >> and which I would sorely miss. So I would certainly object to >> deprecating base.eclass, unless its relevant functionality is >> only moving to a better place. > > base.eclass is randomly exporting non-requested, non-wanted phase > functions colliding with other inherited eclasses. It's just the > lexical order of inherits what stops mayhem from happening. > > In other words, base.eclass is only suitable if you are expecting > to export *all* phase functions which simply doesn't happen in > eclasses. > > For example, if distutils used base eclass, every VCS eclass > inherited before it would be ignored (due to src_unpack() redefined > to default one for no good reason). >
There are tons of eclasses "randomly" exporting phase functions. That is not the problem. The problem is that other eclasses inherit base.eclass. Only that leads to this mess. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP+tmXAAoJEFpvPKfnPDWz2JMH/AwYoHvD9vIBhSSDCQ6np/L5 NzDHuKcqUKKQ5bs9+gHWSf81lFaazu9mw187d1o016nD6TQ1rPjbulQhU9ZLuCt1 qDGBAH1j1vPOktstxzkAXWRzkmbkGir9hz5Mw8WO+AXvcHa5sP4stiaNQyL6ZKhe hhfLkZC+ToZP8CcW7yeS8nC910bvDV9hVfNxsBOMR/EKY/aSnHcsfOf4c3pCX9xd YrrEvoT9zdx9827sk8+PO4m4kAZsvjem7IiTTa+LRH1wPf5DBpjL19c0pSyHF3Kc kBDL4BFrT4lqoNhO0vDXL45AVRsKz2/G0Tu7XLg2ewwCZByPpPlGR277wLjRo44= =DaE5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
