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From: "Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:53:15
Message-Id: 20071219165019.GB4601@ferdyx.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Jim Ramsay
1 On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:03:54AM -0500, Jim Ramsay wrote:
2 > "Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 04:17:21PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
4 > > > Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
5 > > > > Mixing EAPIs can't work.
6 > > >
7 > > > Why?
8 > >
9 > > Because EAPIs can define colliding features.
10 >
11 > The sense I've gotten from this discussion so far is that if you want
12 > features from two EAPIs you know *can* be combined without collisions,
13 > you should define a third EAPI that is a superset of the other 2.
14
15 *nod* But that is different from arbitrary mixing them, which is what
16 originated this subthread.
17
18 - ferdy
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21 Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín
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