Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov: > My idea is to allow failing for some patches without breaking build at all. > And, in parallel, to > add groupping. > > How I imagine that: > > etc/portage/patches/app-cat/<name>/ > | > | - group_name/ > | | > | |- 01_foo.patch > | |- 02_bar.patch > | |- <...> > | > |- 01_moo.patch > |- 99_meow.patch > > Where every first-level piece (patch or group) in > ```etc/portage/patches/app-cat/<name>/``` MAY > tolerably fail (not causing "die" for emerge), but if one of the patches > inside the group fails, then > group MUST NOT be applied at all (and all previously applied patches from > this group MUST be > reversed). > > > Any objections/approvals/suggestions? > > >
How does epatch know if I want a patch to cause "|| die" or not? The only use case I see here is "don't want to clean up old patches".
