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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:02:22
Message-Id: 20071221025615.774481c2@blueyonder.co.uk
1 On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:52:04 +0800
2 Zhang Le <r0bertz@g.o> wrote:
3 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:14:12 +0100
5 > > Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
6 > >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
7 > >>> Ok. What's the EAPI for the following ebuild that's written in an
8 > >>> EAPI that hasn't been published yet? And how would I extract it?
9 > >>>
10 > >>> # Copyright blah blah
11 > >>>
12 > >>> import vim-spell using language="en"
13 > >> If isn't published it doesn't exist in the main tree...
14 > >
15 > > You miss my point. If a package manager encounters the above, how
16 > > does it determine the EAPI?
17 >
18 > As long as there is an agreement between the PM and ebuild, you can
19 > get what you want no matter how it is defined.
20
21 So how does one get the EAPI in the above example? Bear in mind that
22 package managers can only use what's been agreed upon at the time they
23 were released, not what might be agreed upon later -- and yet they need
24 to be able to extract the EAPI from anything agreed upon later.
25
26 --
27 Ciaran McCreesh

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