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Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> GLEP 55 still confuses the problem and the solution. |
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> Adding metadata to the filename is not required and is bad system |
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> design practice. Its also the first step on the slippery slope to |
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> adding more metadata in the future. |
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> Changing the .ebuild extension, to blind existing PMs to new format |
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> ebuilds, is probably a good thing as it means we can have both |
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> formats in the tree at the same time and not wait a long time (year |
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> plus) for users to be on a new package manager. |
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Also, ++ |
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> This allows the EAPI to be included within the ebuild where it belongs. |
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> That means the EAPI needs to be extracted before the ebuild is sourced, |
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> which from the figures bandied about on the list may take marginaly |
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> longer but its a price worth paying for a sound system design. |
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> Gentoo should not repeat the VHS vs Betamax war. For those who do not |
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> remember, VHS was the better marketed but inferior technical solution |
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> that won the standards war for domestic Video recorders. |
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:) Yep. And bad design decisions can haunt is for a long time. My |
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preference is the one-time .ebuild->.eb change, and putting the EAPI on |
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the first line, like a #!shebang. Very easy to extract, and good design. |
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-Joe |
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