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From: Zhang Le <r0bertz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:24:21
Message-Id: 476B3F0F.1070804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:51:03 +0800
3 > Zhang Le <r0bertz@g.o> wrote:
4 >> That's the problem about the agreement between PM and ebuild.
5 >>
6 >> If this is agreed upon
7 >>>>>>> import vim-spell using language="en"
8 >> You should be able to get it.
9 >>
10 >> If not, then blame the ebuild writer. There is no problem with the
11 >> agreement.
12 >
13 > Uh... It's not agreed upon currently.
14
15 It is not about whether it is agreed upon currently.
16 As long as there is an agreement in any given point of time, it is OK.
17 Such as, put your EAPI definition on the first line of your ebuild, like
18 EAPI="value"
19
20 >>> Bear in mind that
21 >>> package managers can only use what's been agreed upon at the time
22 >>> they were released, not what might be agreed upon later -- and yet
23 >>> they need to be able to extract the EAPI from anything agreed upon
24 >>> later.
25 >> Exactly my point.
26 >
27 > So we all agree that suffixes are the solution, since they solve this
28 > problem and in-ebuild-content restrictions don't. Good.
29
30 No, quite contrary.
31 See above.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>