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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:56:33
Message-Id: 20071220055318.53cd78a0@blueyonder.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Thomas de Grenier de Latour
1 On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:46:44 +0100
2 Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr> wrote:
3 > On 2007/12/19, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
4 > wrote:
5 > > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:12:24 +0100
6 > > Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr> wrote:
7 > > > You're done as long as ebuilds are written in bash.
8 > >
9 > > Not even that. What if people decide that rather than writing
10 > > EAPI="blah", "eapi blah" is cleaner?
11 >
12 > Yeah, and file names suffixes won't work anymore as soon as it has
13 > arbitrarily been decided that prefixes should be used instead, or that
14 > EAPI must disappear because using explicit sets of named features is
15 > better than using names of some particular sets. That rules only holds
16 > as long as they don't change is not an argument, but a truism.
17
18 Uh, it works in both those cases. The package manager will simply not
19 see the ebuild at all.
20
21 Which is pretty much the point...
22
23 --
24 Ciaran McCreesh

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