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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating EAPI0
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:20:04
Message-Id: 20090325141936.14501b56@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating EAPI0 by Luca Barbato
1 On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:19:12 +0100
2 Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
3 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > Uhm. Do you think these ideas of yours through at all before posting
5 > > them?
6 >
7 > Being rude doesn't make you cool. (Nor make your points more
8 > effective)
9
10 That's not being rude. It's an attempt to bring your attention to the
11 fact that other people read what you right, so you're doing them a
12 discourtesy by wasting their time by repeatedly posting ideas you
13 haven't thought through and that aren't even remotely workable.
14
15 > > Either you think the entire tree should be switched to a new EAPI in
16 > > one go, in which case how on earth is that going to get done, or you
17 > > don't, in which case there's no point to branches, and any migration
18 > > can be done using a simple tag.
19 >
20 > I'd like you to rethink your statement and then come again.
21
22 We've been over this before. The whole point of EAPI is that it avoids
23 the need for mass tree changes.
24
25 --
26 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating EAPI0 Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@××××××.fm>