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From: Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 Version 2
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:19:52
Message-Id: 1244456330.6418.23.camel@sapc154.salomon.at
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 Version 2 by Roy Bamford
1 On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 23:31 +0100, Roy Bamford wrote:
2
3 > I've spent some time reading all of this years emails on GLEP55 and
4 > added a few lines to version 1.5 which is the last offical version.
5
6 Is there a specific reason not to include the "inherit eapi"[1][2]
7 thing?
8
9 IMHO this would fit best in "Abstract Solution (Part 1)" somehow like:
10
11 -There are two potential solutions to this part of the problem,
12 +There are three potential solutions to this part of the
13 problem,
14
15 * wait for old package managers to fall into disuse
16 * 'blind' old package managers to ebuilds using later
17 constructs
18 + * use "inherit" to have old package managers almost silently
19 + ignore unsupported ebuilds
20
21 [1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_b2656aca1d124658b3df73d3d6804b7e.xml
22 [2] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_348f84690f03e597fb14d6602337c45f.xml
23
24 Thanks!
25
26 /haubi/
27 --
28 Michael Haubenwallner
29 Gentoo on a different level