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From: Thomas Pani <thomas.pani@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:01:32
Message-Id: 476B8E37.2060506@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:59:14 +0800
3 > Zhang Le <r0bertz@g.o> wrote:
4 >> And file extension like welcome.html.fr is quite self-explanatory.
5 >> But an total outsider has no chance to deduce what the 1 in ebuild-1
6 >> means on his own.
7 >
8 > A total outsider doesn't need to know. The only people who will be
9 > dealing with .ebuild-* files are developers and power users.
10 >
11 And you are trying to set an even higher barrier for people to reach
12 that level. How many power users or devs do actually care/know what
13 EAPI=1 means?
14
15 Regards,
16 thomas
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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) Zhang Le <r0bertz@g.o>