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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 16:58:02
Message-Id: 200905171859.03848.Arfrever.FTA@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds by Ciaran McCreesh
1 2009-05-17 18:37:32 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a):
2 > On Sun, 17 May 2009 18:20:21 +0200
3 > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > > I would like to suggest to include possibility of using of features of
5 > > bash-4.0 (and older versions) in local scope of EAPI="3" ebuilds.
6 > >
7 > > I know that it's slightly late, but this change is very easy to
8 > > implement (adjusting RDEPEND of new versions of package managers and
9 > > updating PMS).
10 >
11 > No good, for two reasons.
12 >
13 > First, this is a global scope change
14
15 Why do you think that it is a global scope change?
16
17 > and we can't make global scope
18 > changes to EAPIs using current mechanisms. EAPIs have to carry on using
19 > bash 3 until the EAPI mechanism is changed.
20
21 IMHO ebuilds are allowed to set DEPEND=">=app-shells/bash-4.0" and use
22 bash-4.0 features anyway, but it would be easier to just set appropriate EAPI
23 in ebuilds.
24
25 > Second, by order of the Council, EAPI 3's feature list was locked
26 > several weeks ago. If we ignore that for one thing, it just means
27 > everyone else who had features that came along too late will start
28 > demanding we reconsider those too...
29
30 IMHO addition of this feature would be acceptable.
31
32 --
33 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds "Piotr Jaroszyński" <peper@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>