Re: Interest inquery: kde4-nosemantic overlay

Martin Vaeth posted on Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:32:06 +0000 as excerpted:

> Why not use the script to patch the ebuilds after fetching but store th=
e
> patched ebuilds in your dedicated overlay instead of the original
> location?
> If you give this dedicated overlay a higher priority in
> /etc/portage/repos.conf, portage will install the patched ebuilds if
> they are available.
>=20
> For a general framework, one could e.g. support directories of the form
>=20
> /etc/portage/ebuild.patches/FROM:TO/whatever

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Just bumping this as an idea to followup on, in case there's interest in=20
continuing framework development in other subthread replies.

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