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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Label profiles with EAPI for compatibility checks
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:48:09
Message-Id: 20081005014756.60f5c0e8@snowmobile
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Label profiles with EAPI for compatibility checks by Zac Medico
1 On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:09:43 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3 > In order to allow mixed EAPIs in the profiles, and to avoid having
4 > to configure the EAPI in every single layer, each directory of the
5 > profile stack should be able to either override or inherit the EAPI
6 > value that may have been defined in a previous layer of the profile
7 > stack. If no EAPI has been previously defined then it can be assumed
8 > to be 0.
9
10 That gets really confusing. Easier to just have an eapi file in every
11 directory.
12
13 Are we going to stick a file directly under profiles/ too? Some things
14 in there are EAPI dependent... It'd have to stay at 0 for quite a long
15 time, of course.
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh

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