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From: Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@...>
Subject: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:40:33 +0100
On Thursday 20 December 2007 22:33:25 Joe Peterson wrote:
> Technical reasons to avoid the filename are:
>
> 2) Having the same info in more than one place is bad (requiring extra
> repoman checks and the potential for ambiguity).

As opposed to adding checks to make sure that obtaining the EAPI from the 
contents of the file doesn't require bash?

> 3) It uses the extension in a way that goes against common use in computers.

What? It uses the extension to determine the format of the contents?

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