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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <zlin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI clarifications to skel.ebuild EAPI usage
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:51:52
Message-Id: 200803140351.43599.zlin@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] FYI clarifications to skel.ebuild EAPI usage by "Petteri Räty"
1 On Friday 14 March 2008 03:29:26 Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > solar reported that he had ebuild submissions blindly using EAPI=1 so we
3 > hopefully made the text better reflect that it should not be used unless
4 > absolutely needed.
5
6 'Absolutely' is far too strong a word. A better wording would be 'unless
7 useful', or 'unless it would improve the quality of the ebuild'. For
8 non-system packages, the only thing stopping people from using EAPI 1 where
9 useful is ludditism.
10
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12 Bo Andresen
13 Gentoo KDE Dev

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