Gentoo Archives: gentoo-council

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
Cc: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>, gentoo-council@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:24:00
Message-Id: 20090219152349.2468663a@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-council] Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009 by Luca Barbato
1 On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:30:20 +0100
2 Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
3 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > ...and there weren't any legitimate technical objections.
5 >
6 > Beside "it doesn't solve anything". A perfect solution for non
7 > existent problems isn't a viable solution.
8
9 Have you been paying any attention at all?
10
11 Without GLEP 55, we can't change global scope behaviour. This means no
12 per-cat/pkg eclasses, no new global scope callable functions, no
13 changes to inherit, no fix for the eclasses needing a particular EAPI
14 problem and no new bash versions.
15
16 > > The only thing that can parse ebuilds is bash,
17 >
18 > False.
19
20 Please provide one other thing that can parse ebuilds, and demonstrate
21 how to use it to do metadata generation.
22
23 --
24 Ciaran McCreesh

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