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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:32:44
Message-Id: 20071220082938.4bf4cf3b@blueyonder.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:38:01 -0800
2 Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
3 > Here's some other ideas for how to express EAPI. What if we:
4 >
5 > Used EAPI-named subdirectories instead of tagging it into the
6 > filename?
7
8 Performance hit, and otherwise equivalent to using suffixes.
9
10 > Used (and required) filesystem extended attributes?
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12 Unportable, unsyncable and unmaintainable.
13
14 > Stuck ranges into metadata.xml for which EAPIs applied?
15
16 No package manager required information can be in XML format.
17
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19 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>