Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@×××××××.net>
To: ferringb@×××××.com, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Preparing profiles for EAPI 3 IUSE strictness
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:24:52
Message-Id: 4A534C9D.30204@trelane.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Preparing profiles for EAPI 3 IUSE strictness by Brian Harring
1 Yeah, that was definately a misunderstanding of something bonzaikitten said.
2
3 Mea culpa.
4
5 Andrew
6
7 Brian Harring wrote:
8 > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:08:01AM -0400, Andrew D Kirch wrote:
9 >
10 >> Ciaran,
11 >>
12 >> I've talked with the pkgcore people and they don't use the EAPI's (or
13 >> PMS) in the first place.
14 >>
15 >
16 > No clue who you talked to, but they weren't speaking for pkgcore- I
17 > speak for pkgcore pretty much solely. Pkgcore utilizes EAPIs- hell I
18 > added the original support to portage. Not sure what info you got
19 > fed, but it was a bit off.
20 >
21 >
22 >> I think that ending this discussion here and moving it over to a forum
23 >> more appropriate to package manager development would reduce the
24 >> temperature around your proposals and get them implemented (as Zac seems
25 >> willing to do so).
26 >>
27 >
28 > I don't particularly care one way or another (subscribed to both
29 > MLs), just mostly correcting one large misstatement...
30 >
31 > ~harring
32 >