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On Wed, 17 May 2006 21:22:28 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> |
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| On Wednesday 17 May 2006 20:44, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > Portage still relies upon being able to source ebuilds, even if |
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| > their EAPI isn't supported. |
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| Currently, nothing except the ability to parse bash directly would |
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| make it otherwise. Against my advise, there are no restrictions upon |
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| the EAPI variable. As such EAPI can not reliably be determined |
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| without understanding (or being) bash. |
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Not exactly true. There's nothing to stop a package manager from |
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gracefully handling not even being able to source the ebuild. The way |
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Paludis handles this is to create fake version metadata for weird |
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ebuilds with EAPI set to "UNKNOWN". It's not perfect, but it avoids any |
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overly crazy behaviour. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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