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From: Doug Klima <cardoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:43:34
Message-Id: 477429ED.2060907@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Luca Barbato
1 Luca Barbato wrote:
2 > Marius Mauch wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:10:13 +0100
5 >> Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
6 >>
7 >>
8 >>> Ok, that seems a fine definition of what an eapi is. Everybody agrees on it?
9 >>>
10 >> Nope. EAPI (from my POV) defines the API that a package manager has to export
11 >> to an ebuild/eclass. That includes syntax and semantics of exported and expected
12 >> functions and variables (IOW the content of ebuilds/eclasses), but does not
13 >> contain naming and versioning rules (as those impact cross-package relationships).
14 >>
15 >
16 > This restricted definition is ok for everybody?
17 >
18 > lu
19 >
20 >
21 Logical and proper to me.
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