Re: Making user patches globally available

On Wednesday 18 April 2012 12:59:13 Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:35:40 -0700 Zac Medico wrote:
> > Funtoo has support for FEATURES=localpatch, which does the epatch_user
> > thing before src_prepare. I think it should really go after
> > src_prepare, in order to apply patches after those that src_prepare
> > may apply (avoiding possible conflicts).
>
> So in some future EAPI, src_patch() will be run before src_prepare()?

i don't think Zac mentioned PMS/EAPI anywhere ... just what Funtoo has done
locally

i'm not sure splitting patches out of src_prepare into a dedicated src_patch
step would benefit that much.  often times, you need to mangle the code
before/after patching.
-mike