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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Collecting opinions about GLEP 55 and alternatives
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:21:18
Message-Id: 49A472E3.1010204@gentoo.org
1 Let's try something new. I would like to get opinions from as many
2 people as possible about GLEP 55 and alternatives listed here in order
3 to get some idea what the general developer pool thinks. Everyone is
4 only allowed to post a single reply to this thread in order to make it
5 easy to read through. The existing thread should be used for actual
6 discussion about the GLEP and the alternatives. This should be a useful
7 experiment to see if we can control ourselves :)
8
9 My notes so far:
10
11 1) Status quo
12 - does not allow changing inherit
13 - bash version in global scope
14 - global scope in general is quite locked down
15
16 2) EAPI in file extension
17 - Allows changing global scope and the internal format of the ebuild
18 a) .ebuild-<eapi>
19 - ignored by current Portage
20 b) .<eapi>.ebuild
21 - current Portage does not work with this
22 c) .<eapi>.<new extension>
23 - ignored by current Portage
24
25 3) EAPI in locked down place in the ebuild
26 - Allows changing global scope
27 - EAPI can't be changed in an existing ebuild so the PM can trust
28 the value in the cache
29 - Does not allow changing versioning rules unless version becomes a
30 normal metadata variable
31 * Needs more accesses to cache as now you don't have to load older
32 versions if the latest is not masked
33 a) <new extension>
34 b) new subdirectory like ebuilds/
35 - we could drop extension all together so don't have to argue about
36 it any more
37 - more directory reads to get the list of ebuilds in a repository
38 c) .ebuild in current directory
39 - needs one year wait
40
41 Regards,
42 Petteri

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