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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:20:02 -0500 |
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Doug Klima <cardoe@g.o> wrote: |
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> And I brough up valid reasons with zmedico why putting it before the |
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> inherit line was flawed currently since it could lead to some |
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> seriously unexpected behavior. |
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It's only unexpected if people screw up. If everyone understands the |
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restrictions I posted and sticks to them then things work. If people |
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start trying to be clever things go horribly wrong. |
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> If that's the case, it needs to be a |
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> very strict check in repoman and we need repoman on the eclasses to |
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> prevent people from putting EAPI into the eclasses. |
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Or you need to get PMS and package managers retroactively updated to |
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saying that 'inherit' does a 'declare -r EAPI'... Although that's only |
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a good idea if you operate on the assumption that developers will screw |
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up. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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