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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] extending existing EAPI semantics
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:20:13
Message-Id: 20080611042004.6d411d8e@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] extending existing EAPI semantics by Brian Harring
1 On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:56:23 -0700
2 Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > * easy to shoehorn in for any profile.bashrc compliant manager
4 > (portage/pkgcore); realize paludis is left out here (via it
5 > intentionally being left out of PMS atm by ciaran), but
6 > profile.bashrc *is* used by ebuild devs, thus it's a viable course (I
7 > don't see profile.bashrc ever going away basically).
8
9 If profile.bashrc is to be kept, it means massively reducing what can
10 be done in there.
11
12 > * doesn't address versioning changes.
13
14 Or indeed any change where the ebuild can't be visible to older package
15 managers without breaking them.
16
17 So basically it's not a solution at all.
18
19 --
20 Ciaran McCreesh

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