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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] Eclasses (=inheriting ebuilds) for kde are ready
From:       Dan Armak <danarmak () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2001-09-29 9:44:02
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Hi all,

The new "eclasses", and inheriting ebuilds, are ready. They are on cvs in 
/usr/portage/eclass and as kde packages 2.2.1-r1. They are masked for now, 
until drobbins declares eclasses officialy stable. Please test them if you 
can; just unmask them.

Currently all kde-base and kde-i18n packages are available, plus the new 
kdevelop 2.0.1. A newer, better version of kdevelop (and possibly qt) is 
expected from verwilst. Also, new ebuilds for koffice 1.1 and the latest 
quanta, and for all the kde apps we currently have, are expected today and 
tomorrow.

The current results are great. any ebuilds went down to 4, 3, 2 lines. The 
kde-i18n ebuilds went down to 0 (not counting the inherit command).

For those who are interesed, a howto/readme on writing inheriting ebuilds is 
coming soon, and after that one on writing eclasses. I plan to make eclasses 
better documented than ebuilds :-)

Also, while they are currently only used for kde ebuilds, they might in the 
future be used for gnome euilds or other ebuilds as well. Suggestions welcome!

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel


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