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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: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:16:20
Message-Id: 20071219000917.716749ee@blueyonder.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Thomas de Grenier de Latour
1 On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:08:52 +0100
2 Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr> wrote:
3 > There's no need to introduce a potential infinity of new files
4 > extensions for that. A single one is enough: just call files which
5 > use the rule i've proposed "foo.gbuild" instead of "foo.ebuild", and
6 > you're done.
7
8 You're done until someone wants to introduce a change large enough that
9 it breaks the dodgy pattern matching package managers are doing to get
10 the EAPI currently. Which isn't that unlikely -- consider the original
11 purpose for metadata.xml for an example.
12
13 --
14 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>