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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Prefix: on EPREFIX, ED and EROOT inside ebuilds
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:00:54
Message-Id: 20091024200005.GN20090@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Prefix: on EPREFIX, ED and EROOT inside ebuilds by "Petteri Räty"
1 On 24-10-2009 22:37:30 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > > The suggestion was to just introduce EAPI=3 with these variables, and
3 > > making everything which is scheduled for current EAPI=3 just EAPI=4. I
4 > > was told we could quite quickly have a Portage in the tree that would
5 > > set ED and EROOT for EAPI=3 that way.
6 >
7 > Maybe 2+prefix is a more describing name? This would avoid changing what
8 > EAPI 3 means.
9
10 Naming is up to others, from my point of view.
11
12 > > Are there any objections to this? If not, I'd like to put this on the
13 > > agenda for the next council meeting.
14 >
15 > As the council decided to add new stuff in the last meeting if zac is
16 > starting to implement new EAPIs this could go into EAPI 3 too.
17
18 Yes, this was implicit, the next EAPI should contain the same support
19 too.
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23 Fabian Groffen
24 Gentoo on a different level