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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 18:10:10
Message-Id: 20090516181007.GA8308@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55 by Ben de Groot
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4 On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 01:11:34PM +0200, Ben de Groot wrote:
5 > David Leverton wrote:
6 > > But the point isn't that we want to be able to do those things. The point is
7 > > that if the EAPI is in the filename, it's blatantly obvious that it has to be
8 > > static, but adding strange and unintuitive restrictions on which shell
9 > > constructs can be used is, well, strange and unintuitive.
10 >
11 > Except that we aren't talking about strange and unintuitive. All we are
12 > saying is basically documenting current usage: put a line with EAPI=
13 > near the top. That's very straighforward and intuitive. Plus, it works.
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15 Agreed. The way I have always usedEAPI is, you set it once at the top
16 of the EBUILD and you are done with it. As far as I know, there is no
17 reason to change EAPI once it is set, and eclasses shouldn't be changing
18 it.
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21 William Hubbs
22 gentoo accessibility team lead
23 williamh@g.o
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Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>