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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...>
Subject: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:29:38 +0000
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.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
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