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From: Ole Markus With <olemarkus@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:56:01
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In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting by Thomas Sachau
1 On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:03:56 +0200, Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > Tomáš Chvátal schrieb:
4 >> Start collecting ideas for EAPI5.
5 >
6 > 2) USE-flag based support to install for different slots (e.g. python,
7 > ruby or php)
8 >
9 > The second one is already done in some eclasses, afaik php and ruby, but
10 > it might be a good idea to
11 > have a general framework for all slotted languages, so there is no need
12 > to re-implement the same for
13 > every language.
14 >
15
16 I would definately like to see something around this. It feels silly that
17 slotted languages and its package behave almost the same, but different
18 enough for it to be quite annoying for the end users.
19
20 Also those packagers who have to deal with language bindings towards
21 multiple slotted languages experience quite a lot of pain because of how
22 differently this behaviour is implemented in the various eclasses.
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26 Ole Markus