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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:41:47
Message-Id: 20080610064137.1f4127a1@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:35:25 -0700
2 Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
3 > Did anyone already propose specifying this in metadata.xml?
4
5 Yup. That's a no-go, since metadata.xml is quite rightly treated as
6 being "not suitable for anything the package manager really needs".
7
8 It also moves the EAPI definition even further away from the ebuild,
9 which makes it even harder to work with.
10
11 And, of course, it's not backwards compatible, so it'd still need a
12 file extension change.
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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