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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:04:25
Message-Id: 20071221035914.23911eec@blueyonder.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Zhang Le
1 On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:51:03 +0800
2 Zhang Le <r0bertz@g.o> wrote:
3 > That's the problem about the agreement between PM and ebuild.
4 >
5 > If this is agreed upon
6 > >>>>> import vim-spell using language="en"
7 > You should be able to get it.
8 >
9 > If not, then blame the ebuild writer. There is no problem with the
10 > agreement.
11
12 Uh... It's not agreed upon currently. It may be agreed upon in the
13 future, but that's no good for current package managers. Current
14 package managers have to be able to deal with future agreements,
15 without limiting those future agreements to not being able to make
16 changes like the above example.
17
18 > > Bear in mind that
19 > > package managers can only use what's been agreed upon at the time
20 > > they were released, not what might be agreed upon later -- and yet
21 > > they need to be able to extract the EAPI from anything agreed upon
22 > > later.
23 >
24 > Exactly my point.
25
26 So we all agree that suffixes are the solution, since they solve this
27 problem and in-ebuild-content restrictions don't. Good.
28
29 --
30 Ciaran McCreesh

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