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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:49:10 +0800 |
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> Zhang Le <r0bertz@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>>> As long as there is an agreement in any given point of time, it is |
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>>>> OK. Such as, put your EAPI definition on the first line of your |
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>>>> ebuild, like EAPI="value" |
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>>> No good for package managers written before the agreement. |
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>> Why not force user to upgrade their PM? |
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> That's a) exactly what we're trying to avoid with EAPIs, |
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I guess it was giving a smooth upgrade path |
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> b) no good because there isn't a sane way of forcing a package manager upgrade and |
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Say why? |
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> c) another one of those "wait a year until we can use anything" things. |
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Or spend 6 months discussing something that may or may not be accepted |
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because lacks enough documentation to be decided on... |
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lu - and 2008 is just next week.. |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo Council Member |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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