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On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:38:01 -0800
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
> Here's some other ideas for how to express EAPI. What if we:
>
> Used EAPI-named subdirectories instead of tagging it into the
> filename?
Performance hit, and otherwise equivalent to using suffixes.
> Used (and required) filesystem extended attributes?
Unportable, unsyncable and unmaintainable.
> Stuck ranges into metadata.xml for which EAPIs applied?
No package manager required information can be in XML format.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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