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| author |   Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> | 2021-03-12 20:50:39 +0000 |
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| committer |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2021-03-30 11:11:07 +0200 |
| commit | 2f0af8dd1db88444cefbc897d2ba929817fb56ba (patch) | |
| tree | c0cd2a7b0b4d3f700bbdf1e8b7bd3ab1facbece7 | |
| parent | ebuild-writing/file-format: mention 99999999 as live for YYYYMMDD versions (diff) | |
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ebuild-writing/using-eclasses: mention sorting inherit arguments
Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual/pull/202
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | ebuild-writing/using-eclasses/text.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ebuild-writing/using-eclasses/text.xml b/ebuild-writing/using-eclasses/text.xml index 943e92d..e9e12fe 100644 --- a/ebuild-writing/using-eclasses/text.xml +++ b/ebuild-writing/using-eclasses/text.xml @@ -26,6 +26,15 @@ link="::general-concepts/portage-cache"/>). </p> <p> +When using <c>inherit</c>, it is best practice to sort the arguments (eclasses) +alphabetically. An exception is where the phases exported by an eclass are +affected by subsequent arguments. For example, <c>multilib-minimal.eclass</c> +mentions in its +<uri link="::eclass-reference/multilib-minimal.eclass/">documentation</uri> +that it should be inherited last because it overrides most phases. +</p> + +<p> After inheriting an eclass, its provided functions can be used as normal. Here's an example ebuild, <c>foomatic-0.1-r2.ebuild</c>, which uses three eclasses: |