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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0068: Add <stabilize-allarches/> element to metadata.xml
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:14:15
Message-Id: 1519200844.1151.2.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] glep-0068: Add element to metadata.xml by Ulrich Mueller
1 W dniu śro, 21.02.2018 o godzinie 00∶32 +0100, użytkownik Ulrich Mueller
2 napisał:
3 > > > > > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Michał Górny wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 > > +- zero or more ``<stabilize-allarches/>`` elements, possibly restricted
7 > > + to specific package versions (at most one for each version) whose presence
8 >
9 > Rather than versions, it might make more sense to allow restricting
10 > this to specific slots. I suggest to update the "restrict" attribute
11 > to EAPI 5 dependency specifications (either for this element only,
12 > or globally).
13 >
14
15 Not sure if that's a good idea. Not that anything I know really parses
16 restrict="" but (unlike adding a new element) changing the semantics of
17 it is not backwards-compatible.
18
19 Also, should we allow USE-dependencies in it then? How should they be
20 evaluated?
21
22 --
23 Best regards,
24 Michał Górny