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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for 10 July 2008
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:58:47
Message-Id: 487CC909.6040109@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for 10 July 2008 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti:
2 > On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:16:23 -0700
3 > "Alec Warner" <antarus@g.o> wrote:
4 >> As far as could be determined by the members at the meeting there no
5 >> compelling examples in Gentoo who to change or add global scope
6 >> functions in future EAPIs. As such those problems as stated are not
7 >> in scope for Gentoo because Gentoo is not attempting to do those
8 >> things at this time.
9 >
10 > You mean you don't want per-category/package eclasses, or eclasses that
11 > can indicate that they only work with some EAPIs, or eclasses that can
12 > indicate that they're being used incorrectly, or the death of
13 > EXPORT_FUNCTIONS? All of these have been discussed as desirable future
14 > extensions.
15 >
16
17 Yes I can think a lot of features like this that would be of great use
18 in the main tree but as long as Portage is the only official and stable
19 package manager and doesn't support the things you listed, the GLEP is
20 not of much use.
21
22 Regards,
23 Petteri

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