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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:03:30
Message-Id: CAJ0EP43OP3bjbnhwrVEXOVcSJSNpMaxch5sQafj6jGPZs449yw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash by Alec Warner
1 On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> On 13 March 2012 10:14, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
4 >>>>>>>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, James Broadhead wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>>> I'm sure that it's been considered already, but what are the arguments
7 >>>> against embedding the EAPI on a per-package (default) or per-version
8 >>>> basis in metadata.xml. It IS metadata after all.
9 >>>
10 >>> You can find a recent discussion in bug 402167, comment #4 and
11 >>> following. <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402167#c4>
12 >>
13 >> I note that there is a link to the council minutes, with the reason
14 >> for voting "no" against GLEP55 being "it has issues that are
15 >> unsolved", but I don't see any reference to said issues.
16 >>
17 >> Is the actual IRC transcript available? Because I'd hate for this
18 >> decision to have been made on the assumption of issues which didn't
19 >> really exist.
20 >
21 > The previous council's decision does not prevent this same glep from
22 > going to the council again (decisions are not forever.)
23 > Some folks seem to think that taking glep55 back to the council is not
24 > allowed somehow (or is perhaps futile, but that is a different issue
25 > ;p) Having the full notes would be helpful in determining why it was
26 > turned down back then; I'm sure a copy of the notes exist.
27
28 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/
29 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20100823.txt

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>