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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4"
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:54:22
Message-Id: 201010251556.19670.Arfrever@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4" by Ciaran McCreesh
1 2010-10-25 15:42:00 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a):
2 > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:24:23 +0200
3 > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o> wrote:
4 > > 1. Support for "." characters in names of USE flags
5 >
6 > If you do this, you'll have to either convert everything using Python
7 > ABIs to EAPI 4 immediately, or have two sets of flag names. Won't users
8 > get confused if they have to set both python_abis_3_2 (for EAPI < 4
9 > packages) and python_abis_3.2 (for EAPI 4 packages)?
10
11 There won't be any such USE flags for EAPI <4. I'm planning to use e.g. REQUIRED_USE, which isn't
12 available in EAPI <4.
13
14 > And won't developers have a hard time getting [use] deps right for them?
15
16 Appropriate dependencies will be automatically generated by python.eclass.
17
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19 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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