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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:31:08
Message-Id: 47742693.2010909@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Marius Mauch
1 Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:10:13 +0100
3 > Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Ok, that seems a fine definition of what an eapi is. Everybody agrees on it?
6 >
7 > Nope. EAPI (from my POV) defines the API that a package manager has to export
8 > to an ebuild/eclass. That includes syntax and semantics of exported and expected
9 > functions and variables (IOW the content of ebuilds/eclasses), but does not
10 > contain naming and versioning rules (as those impact cross-package relationships).
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12 This restricted definition is ok for everybody?
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18 Luca Barbato
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