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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:37:01
Message-Id: 476BBFB5.1000908@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh a écrit :
2 > Developers have to know about EAPIs. It's part of knowing how to write
3 > ebuilds. There's no way around that -- if you're writing ebuilds, you
4 > have to know what you are and aren't allowed to do in those ebuilds.
5
6 Then please try to keep things simple :)
7
8 The majority of devs don't want to know how portage or paludis work
9 internally, that's not what interests most of us.
10
11 On a somewhat related note : I noticed that among the massive thread,
12 you have brought up several times the issue of cache generation, saying
13 that it was a complicated process.
14
15 Maybe this process needs to be reworked before the whole EAPI issue can
16 be resolved?
17
18 Cheers,
19
20 Rémi
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>