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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:49:03
Message-Id: 20120308164801.61a11b5b@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 19:31:16 +0000
2 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:17:41 +0100
5 > Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
6 > > In one of them, removal of the old assignment statement had simply
7 > > been forgotten [1]. For the other two, the EAPI had been assigned by
8 > > an eclass [2], which we consider illegal anyway.
9 >
10 > ...and yet people do it. That and the violations of the HOMEPAGE rule
11 > tell you a lot about what happens when something is made syntactically
12 > valid but supposedly not legal.
13 >
14
15 ... and this is where repoman helps.
16 broken deps are syntactically valid but not legal either.