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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:48:27 +0100 |
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> Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> ...and then we have to do the whole thing again every time something |
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>>> new crops up. |
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>> Please give an example because I fail to see how. |
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> New version suffix rules. New bash versions. New package naming rules. |
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> Partially composable EAPIs. Tree-provided internals. Consistent variable |
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> namespacing. Metadata via function calls. |
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>>> EAPI was supposed to solve this, and profile eapi and |
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>>> GLEP 55 finish the job. Repeatedly going back and saying "oh, we |
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>>> have to wait another year or more again" is unacceptable. |
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>> Had we found a compromise at the beginning of glep55, that extra year |
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>> would be over by now... |
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> And we'd be starting on the next batch of "oh, we need to wait another |
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> year". Had GLEP 55's necessity been accepted a year ago, we'd have a |
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> whole bunch of requested features implemented by now. |
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I doubt Portage would have gained new features any faster. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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