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On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:58:15 +0100 |
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Thomas Pani <thomas.pani@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:59:14 +0800 |
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> > Zhang Le <r0bertz@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> And file extension like welcome.html.fr is quite self-explanatory. |
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> >> But an total outsider has no chance to deduce what the 1 in |
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> >> ebuild-1 means on his own. |
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> > |
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> > A total outsider doesn't need to know. The only people who will be |
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> > dealing with .ebuild-* files are developers and power users. |
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> > |
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> And you are trying to set an even higher barrier for people to reach |
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> that level. How many power users or devs do actually care/know what |
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> EAPI=1 means? |
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Developers have to know about EAPIs. It's part of knowing how to write |
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ebuilds. There's no way around that -- if you're writing ebuilds, you |
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have to know what you are and aren't allowed to do in those ebuilds. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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