Source useflag

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[edit] Implementing the source useflag

Since IDE's like Eclipse and Netbeans allow it to attach the source code if applications as a zip file, we're going to add support for the source useflag to nearly all java based ebuilds. To make integrating easier for us, we have a little eclass function called dosrc. If you want to integrate support for the source useflag into an ebuild, you have to do the following things:

• Make sure you inherit from the java-pkg eclass
• Add the source useflag to IUSE
• Add a conditional compile time dependency for zip to DEPEND: source? ( app-arch/zip )
• Call java-pkg_dosrc in src_compile(), make sure the source directory exists: java-pkg_dosrc src/java/*, java-pkg_dosrc src/*, etc

This is a great improvement and since it's very easy to implement into ebuild this should be added to every ebuild of the java herd.