Howdy, I've read snippets that EAPI 6 will provide a mechanism for follks to put patches directly into ebuilds. I'm not certain (some discussion needed) that this will eliminated some ebuilds from my /usr/local/portage development repository.
However, now I'm learning and hacking on 2 different bleeding edge technologies. Clusters (mesos, spark etc etc) and Java (maven etc etc). I am but a "follwer" at this time on those two bleeding edge fronts. But codes are release at multiple times during the day/week that I need to test. So, in my limited understanding, EAPI 6 looks absolutely wonderful. So, since I'm only hacking at ebuilds for my own needs (currently not able to produce anything that is not embarrashing) can I start building ebuilds that use EAPI-6? I understand that it is not finalized yet. But, if the user supplied patching is at least workable, I'd rather get busy learning/testing those new EAPI-6 tricks. thoughts and comments and insight are most welcome. James
