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From: Matti Bickel <mabi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4"
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:44:36
Message-Id: 4CC5B3DC.5070400@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4" by "Petteri Räty"
1 On 10/25/2010 06:23 PM, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > On 10/25/2010 04:24 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
3 >> I would like to request that 2 additional features are added to EAPI="4".
4 >> These features will be needed for further development of python.eclass.
5 >>
6 >> 1. Support for "." characters in names of USE flags
7 >
8 > Ideally we should have consistency across languages so if we go down
9 > this road then for example ruby should eventually support it too. Ruby
10 > people: can you provide your input.
11
12 PHP could potentially benefit from this, we currently (see
13 php-ext-source-r2.eclass) have to use "-" instead of the dot.
14 But to my eyes the ugliness is acceptable.

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