Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds

[Piotr Jaroszyński]

2009/5/20 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o>:
> 2009-05-17 19:02:02 Piotr Jaroszyński napisał(a):
>> 2009/5/17 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com>:
>> > 2009-05-17 18:37:32 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a):
>> >> On Sun, 17 May 2009 18:20:21 +0200
>> >> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com> wrote:
>> >> > I would like to suggest to include possibility of using of features of
>> >> > bash-4.0 (and older versions) in local scope of EAPI="3" ebuilds.
>> >> >
>> >> > I know that it's slightly late, but this change is very easy to
>> >> > implement (adjusting RDEPEND of new versions of package managers and
>> >> > updating PMS).
>> >>
>> >> No good, for two reasons.
>> >>
>> >> First, this is a global scope change
>> >
>> > Why do you think that it is a global scope change?
>>
>> I have updated the glep, see how it breaks [1].
>>
>> [1] - http://dev.gentoo.org/~peper/glep-0055.html#use-newer-bash-features
>
> This error occurs only when there is no up-to-date cache for given ebuild.
> rsync users would see only the usual "masked by: EAPI 3" message.

Relying on cache being valid is doomed to fail. Among other things,
what about overlays?

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Best Regards,
Piotr Jaroszyński