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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Agenda for Gentoo Council meeting on 2014-01-14
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:19:22
Message-Id: 20140110180807.64be117b@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Agenda for Gentoo Council meeting on 2014-01-14 by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:29:28 -0600
2 Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
3 > (This involves setting EAPI=5 in the main profiles directory, then
4 > moving the eapi-5-files files to a suitable place (base?) and
5 > removing the eapi-5-files directory.)
6
7 Just to be clear, quoting PMS, (especially the last sentence):
8
9 > A profile directory may contain an \t{eapi} file. This file, if it
10 > exists, must contain a single line with the name of an EAPI. This
11 > specifies the EAPI to use when handling the directory in question; a
12 > package manager must not attempt to use any profile using a directory
13 > which requires an EAPI it does not support. If no \t{eapi} file is
14 > present, EAPI 0 shall be used. The EAPI is not inherited via the
15 > \t{parent} file.
16
17 To avoid confusion, it's probably better to indiscriminately drop an
18 EAPI 5 file in every single directory.
19
20 --
21 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-project] Agenda for Gentoo Council meeting on 2014-01-14 Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>