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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP updates
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:20:54
Message-Id: 20060905211814.GA12980@seldon
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP updates by Grant Goodyear
1 On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:53:02PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote:
2 > Brian Harring wrote: [Mon Sep 04 2006, 01:04:21AM CDT]
3 > > > 49 (alt package manager 1) --> R (by council; sane API preferred)
4 > > > 50 (alt package manager 2) --> R (by council; sane API preferred)
5 > >
6 > > Might want to clarify the "sane API preferred" bit.
7 >
8 > Sorry, I should have been more precise. The council rejected both
9 > GLEPs in favor of starting with a Gentoo package manager API (which
10 > spb is slowly assembling), and then requiring in-tree package
11 > managers to implement that API. Or at least that was my understanding
12 > of that meeting.
13
14 Clarifying a bit, he was to document EAPI=0; that's not a package
15 manager API however, just a format description. ;)
16 ~harring