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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:50
Message-Id: 4A0E9F66.1070508@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55 by David Leverton
1 David Leverton wrote:
2 > But the point isn't that we want to be able to do those things. The point is
3 > that if the EAPI is in the filename, it's blatantly obvious that it has to be
4 > static, but adding strange and unintuitive restrictions on which shell
5 > constructs can be used is, well, strange and unintuitive.
6
7 Except that we aren't talking about strange and unintuitive. All we are
8 saying is basically documenting current usage: put a line with EAPI=
9 near the top. That's very straighforward and intuitive. Plus, it works.
10
11 Cheers,
12 --
13 Ben de Groot
14 Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
15 Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison
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Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>