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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] IUSE_DEFAULTS-v0.1
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:50:06
Message-Id: 43F34D5A.70502@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] IUSE_DEFAULTS-v0.1 by Paul de Vrieze
1 Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 13:44, Alec Warner wrote:
3 >
4 >>Well that problem would be, no one wants to modify everything in
5 >>app-portage/ :). If my portage EAPI is 1, but my tools don't support
6 >>processing +- in IUSE, how does EAPI help me here? The support check
7 >>is only for portage_const, so the tool remains fucked. Unless I'm
8 >>missing something.
9 >
10 >
11 > Tools should also be EAPI aware. I know too many aren't, but that doesn't
12 > mean they shouldn't be.
13 >
14 > Paul
15 >
16
17 I guess my point here is, last I checked we can't pass an EAPI less than
18 portage_const.EAPI.
19
20 In this example, say portage's EAPI is at 2, but my tool only handles
21 EAPI 0, there is no way to set this in portage so I get EAPI 0 results.
22 So perhaps we need this implemented as well.
23
24 -Alec

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] IUSE_DEFAULTS-v0.1 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>