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On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 12:37 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. |
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<wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> As most things I think this would require support in PMS, or next EAPI |
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> at minimum. But I think the EAPI comes from PMS, so they are related. |
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Actually, I'm not sure about this since it doesn't really affect what |
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is actually built, but I'll defer to others on that. For example, in |
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[1] there is a statement "Package managers may recognise other tokens, |
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but ebuilds may not rely upon them being supported." This strikes me |
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as that sort of thing, and indeed this might be the right place to put |
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it. There is no real harm if a particular package manager doesn't |
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support this feature as it has no affect on what is installed. I |
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believe we also use non-PMS variables for things like disabling QA |
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checks in tinderboxes and such, since this has no impact on package |
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managers. |
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A new EAPI would be defined in a new version of the PMS. The PMS is |
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the specification that includes EAPI among other things. |
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1 - https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-920008.2.8 |
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