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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:05:59
Message-Id: 20120308170342.7d36d75e@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds by Alexandre Rostovtsev
1 On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:59:33 -0500
2 Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o> wrote:
3 > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 16:29 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > And you believe that having exactly one place inside ebuild text
5 > > where there are different whitespace, quoting and indenting rules
6 > > for something that otherwise looks exactly like any other metadata
7 > > variable isn't going to cause problems?
8 >
9 > In light of the fact that all 29758 ebuilds in portage already satisfy
10 > the proposed whitespace, quoting, and indenting constrains on EAPI
11 > assignment, the probability of problems appears to be vanishingly
12 > small. And "vanishingly small" and can be reduced to zero by simply
13 > adding a check to repoman.
14
15 Because they were recently changed, presumably...
16
17 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402167#c36
18
19 We had this discussion the last time around too, and people were told
20 to assign in a particular way. As you can see, it didn't work.
21
22 --
23 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>