EAPI 4_pre1
Helpers
Removed dohard and dosed
The dohard and dosed helpers from previous EAPIs are no longer available.
dodoc -r
The dodoc helper now has a -r option which enables recursion.
Phases
New pkg_pretend Phase Function
The pkg_pretend function may be used to carry out sanity checks early on in the
install process. For example, if an ebuild requires a particular kernel
configuration, it may perform that check in pkg_pretend and call eerror and
then die with appropriate messages if the requirement is not met.
pkg_pretend is run separately from the main phase function sequence, and does
not participate in any kind of environment saving. There is no guarantee that
any of an ebuild's dependencies will be met at this stage, and no guarantee
that the system state will not have changed substantially before the next phase
is executed.
pkg_pretend must not write to the filesystem.