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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:57:07 -0800 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o> |
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| Not saying it's a great idea, but EAPI exists to provide immediate |
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| transition to incompatible changes instead of the usual "work out a |
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| semi backwards compatible way, don't use it for 6 months, then deal |
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| with the bugs". |
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Addition of any new dependency filtering criterion is a backwards |
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incompatible change anyway. If you add, say, [fish:trout] and older |
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versions of Portage don't recognise [fish:], there's no way for said |
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older Portage versions to know what to do. Being able to parse |
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additional DEPEND constructs is not sufficient. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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