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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:21:41
Message-Id: 201109160220.27814.Arfrever@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting by Brian Harring
1 2011-09-16 01:54:44 Brian Harring napisał(a):
2 > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:21:55AM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
3 > > 2011-09-15 09:55:08 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a):
4 > > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:35:21 +0200
5 > > > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
6 > > > > Could you point me to at least a single program not supporting dots
7 > > > > in useflags? My quick check shows that all PMs handle them well, quse
8 > > > > and euse as well.
9 > > >
10 > > > Hrm, it's rather disappointing that they're accepted everywhere. That
11 > > > really shouldn't happen... My excuse for Paludis is that I never quite
12 > > > got around to passing in additional flags to validation of names, and
13 > > > dots are legal in exheres-0
14 > >
15 > > There is no reason for Gentoo to be worse than Exherbo and not allow dots in USE flags.
16 >
17 > Seriously Arfrever, drop the rhetoric here, and go fix the profile
18 > compatibility issue.
19
20 I suggest to support files with "-${EAPI}" suffix.
21 Examples:
22 profiles/package.mask-5
23 profiles/use.desc-5
24 profiles/base/package.mask-5
25 profiles/base/package.use-5
26 profiles/base/package.use.force-5
27 profiles/base/package.use.mask-5
28 profiles/base/use.force-5
29 profiles/base/use.mask-5
30 profiles/desc/python_abis.desc-5
31
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33 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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