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On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:27:56 +0200 |
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Tiziano Müller <dev-zero@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > No point. A 0 package manager still couldn't use a 0.1 ebuild. |
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> > |
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> That's true, it has at least to be aware the there's an EAPI. |
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> But how does such a package manager handle .ebuild-0 files? Ignore |
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> them? Failing because of unknown files in a package-dir? |
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> Should we care about package managers not being aware of the |
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> existence of EAPI's? |
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Package managers can't do *anything* with ebuilds with unsupported |
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EAPIs anyway. Encouraging package managers to handle ebuilds with |
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unsupported EAPIs in any way just massively limits what can be done in |
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future EAPIs. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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