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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Label profiles with EAPI for compatibility checks
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 01:47:56 +0100
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:09:43 -0700
Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
> In order to allow mixed EAPIs in the profiles, and to avoid having
> to configure the EAPI in every single layer, each directory of the
> profile stack should be able to either override or inherit the EAPI
> value that may have been defined in a previous layer of the profile
> stack. If no EAPI has been previously defined then it can be assumed
> to be 0.

That gets really confusing. Easier to just have an eapi file in every
directory.

Are we going to stick a file directly under profiles/ too? Some things
in there are EAPI dependent... It'd have to stay at 0 for quite a long
time, of course.

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