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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Collecting opinions about GLEP 55 and alternatives
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:21:17
Message-Id: 20090226182024.0cd44cc8@snowmobile
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Collecting opinions about GLEP 55 and alternatives by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:07:32 +0000
2 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > There's a less extreme variant on this that's slightly cleaner, and
4 > with appropriate weaseling is also less messy. Simply add the
5 > following very carefully worded additional requirement for future
6 > EAPIs, and retroactively impose it upon current ones:
7 >
8 > If EAPI is to be set, it must be set strictly before any global scope
9 > command or package manager defined function is called. Once set, EAPI
10 > must not be set to a different value.
11
12 ...not quite weasely enough. Also needs:
13
14 and before any package manager defined variables are used or package
15 manager set shell behaviour is relied upon.
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh

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