Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH 05/22] EAPI 6 supports package.* and use.* directories.

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, David Leverton wrote:

> Ulrich Müller wrote:
>> +\featurelabel{profile-file-dirs} For EAPIs listed as supported in table~\ref{tab:profile-file-dirs},
>> +simple line-based files described in the following sections may optionally be directories containing
>> +files of the named type.

> 1) Can those directories themselves contain subdirectories (and
> sub-subdirectories, ...), or is it just one level deep?

> 2) Is there any restriction on the names of the files (e.g. ignoring
> hidden files, editor backups, etc), or can they be anything?

> If I'm reading the current Portage implementation correctly, the
> answers there (without making any claims about what the spec should
> or shouldn't adopt) are:

> 1) Yes, there can be multiple levels of subdirectories.

> 2) Yes, files and subdirectories beginning with a . or ending with a
> ~ are excluded, as are subdirectories named CVS, RCS or SCCS.

From the wording that we have it seems that the answer to both
questions should be No.

I'll try to have this clarified before the council meeting. If that
should fail, I suggest to drop the feature from EAPI 6; it can be
reconsidered for EAPI 7 then.

Ulrich