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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:24:24
Message-Id: 47692834.7020804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:38:08 +0100
3 > Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:
4 >> Just to have it spelt out, what you suggest here is that EAPI has a
5 >> single value, a word or a number, that refers to a set of "features
6 >> and rules", if I understand correctly.
7 >>
8 >> With this way of using EAPI I fail to see why EAPIs aren't orderable.
9 >> Even with the example you gave in the previous mail, it looks like a
10 >> perfect succession of EAPIs.
11 >
12 > It doesn't *have* to be a perfect succession. It's entirely possible
13 > that there will be, say, two divergent EAPI branches or even that there
14 > will be a completely unrelated new EAPI format.
15 >
16
17 What's the point in having such thing?
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23 Luca Barbato
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>