On 08/14/2012 01:54 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:45:56 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:44:49 +0200 >> Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> As some of you may have noticed, lately introduced 'double include >>> preventions' have caused changes in effective phase functions in a >>> few ebuilds. Also, often it is undesirable that change in inherits >>> of an eclass may cause an undesired change of exported functions. >> >> The problem here is that eclasses aren't clearly split between >> "utility" and "does stuff", so people are inheriting "does stuff" >> eclasses to get utilities. The fix is to stop having stupidly huge >> complicated eclasses; changing inherit behaviour is just wallpapering >> over the gaping hole.
Ciaran's assessment sounds pretty accurate to me. > Soo, how do you propose to handle bug 422533 without changing inherit > behavior? Close it as WONTFIX. The ifndef thing that we're doing now seems like a reasonable approach. -- Thanks, Zac
