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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:56:08
Message-Id: 49A56A14.2080400@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:04:46 +0100
3 > Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
4 >> given that the simplest thing is hacking ebuild.sh and extract eapi
5 >> with a simple C program (you can use pcre or ragel if you want)
6 >> exactly before the ebuild source:
7 >
8 > That you're bringing ebuild.sh into this shows you still haven't worked
9 > out how the process works. There is no need to use ebuild.sh (which is
10 > a very good thing, because launching bash is slooooooooooooow) when
11 > there's valid metadata.
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13 it there is a valid metadata you have everything there already and you
14 don't have to parse the ebuild so...
15
16 >>> So you have patches for Portage? Please show them.
17 >> Up there what's enough to check the viability for the solution.
18 >
19 > No, it's completely wrong. ebuild.sh has nothing to do with this.
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21 Is there another place in portage that extracts the EAPI value?
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23 > Yes, it will warn noisily. This is unacceptable, since stable users
24 > will have months and months of noise when new rules come along.
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26 "unacceptable"...
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28 as in "it's ugly to see"...
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35 Luca Barbato
36 Gentoo Council Member
37 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
38 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

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