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From: "Santiago M. Mola" <coldwind@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds?
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:03:54
Message-Id: 3c32af40808020803lfbcfa75ra45db07e80a69939@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New RESTRICT=live value for identification of live ebuilds? by Zac Medico
1 On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
2 > Mike Auty wrote:
3 >
4 >> If there's need for a new class of ebuild information (such as a new
5 >> way of categorizing ebuilds by feature), perhaps we should add an ebuild
6 >> features variable specifically for the purpose?
7 >
8 > That requires an EAPI bump, which also means that it can't be used
9 > in ebuilds with EAPI 0 or 1. The RESTRICT solution is simpler and we
10 > can use it right now in any ebuild.
11 >
12
13 I don't think we're in a hurry for this feature, so I don't see the
14 need of using suboptimal hacks in order to avoid an EAPI bump.
15 Furthermore, EAPI 2 is supposed to be done in the near future, right?
16
17 Regards,
18 --
19 Santiago M. Mola
20 Jabber ID: cooldwind@×××××.com

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