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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:45:27
Message-Id: 20080101154230.7a8b0c1e@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Marius Mauch
1 On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 05:50:11 +0100
2 Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote:
3 > > You pretty much have to have a way of mapping an EAPI version onto
4 > > an absolute version if you want to handle it sanely.
5 >
6 > Right, and that's likely to cause a mess in the long run IMO.
7
8 Eh, it's already necessary if package managers want to support things
9 like CPAN natively. It's not too big a deal.
10
11 > > Mmm, no. You have some concept of a superset of all supported naming
12 > > rules, then refine once you've extracted the EAPI.
13 >
14 > Assuming the current package manager supports all used EAPIs,
15 > otherwise a formerly invalid name could still break it.
16
17 'Twould just have to ignore them.
18
19 --
20 Ciaran McCreesh

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