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From: Alex Alexander <wired@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc portage news item
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:57:22
Message-Id: 20110429175831.GB11073@lust
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc portage news item by Rich Freeman
1 On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:52:15PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3 > >>>>>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Alex Alexander wrote:
4 > >
5 > >> please have a look at the attached patch.
6 > >
7 > >> -EAPI="1"
8 > >> +EAPI="4"
9 > >
10 > > Shouldn't the ebuild's phase functions be updated from "EAPI 0 style"
11 > > to "EAPI 2 style" too?
12 >
13 > If the goal is to get this stable in a week, and bypass the 1 month
14 > waiting period, do we really want to change EAPI at this point? From
15 > an end-user perspective updating the EAPI on the ebuild provides no
16 > benefit. Why not just deal with that in a future revision?
17 >
18 > I don't see much value in rewriting the ebuild to use a new EAPI
19 > simply because 4 > 1.
20
21 EAPI was bumped so I could use pkg_pretend, please check out my
22 (incomplete) patch.
23
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Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc portage news item William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>