On 17:21 Thu 12 Feb     , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> The problem is, without GLEP 55, EAPI isn't known before the ebuild is 
> sourced to generate metadata. If someone uses += anywhere that older 
> bash looks when sourcing for metadata generation (which is not just 
> global scope)

Where else does it look?

> the package manager won't know that the EAPI says that bash-3.1 is 
> required for sourcing until after it's already done the sourcing, by 
> which point it's too late.

OK. What could we do about this? GLEP 55 was one suggestion.


I'm seeing a lot of people shooting down suggestions, and not many 
people presenting good, workable solutions. Could we get some more of 
those on the table?

Here's basically what I've seen:

- GLEP 55 will solve all the world's problems
- Change PMS to bash 3.1, and go with the "wait a while" that we'd 
  previously done

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com