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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Agenda for Gentoo Council meeting on 2014-01-14
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:00:47
Message-Id: 20140114200041.GA3578@comet.hsd1.mn.comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Agenda for Gentoo Council meeting on 2014-01-14 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 18:08 Fri 10 Jan , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:29:28 -0600
3 > Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
4 > > A profile directory may contain an \t{eapi} file. This file, if it
5 > > exists, must contain a single line with the name of an EAPI. This
6 > > specifies the EAPI to use when handling the directory in question; a
7 > > package manager must not attempt to use any profile using a
8 > > directory which requires an EAPI it does not support. If no \t{eapi}
9 > > file is present, EAPI 0 shall be used. The EAPI is not inherited via
10 > > the \t{parent} file.
11 >
12 > To avoid confusion, it's probably better to indiscriminately drop an
13 > EAPI 5 file in every single directory.
14
15 Thanks Ciaran. Appreciate the clarification.
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18 Thanks,
19 Donnie
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21 Donnie Berkholz
22 Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com>
23 Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/>