From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lc4fI-0007Zj-Aq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:18:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7E77E010E; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:18:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.142]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0968E010E for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:18:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [62.3.120.141] (helo=spike) by smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Lc4fF-0007ze-5f for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:18:05 +0000 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:17:57 +0000 From: Roy Bamford Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20090224164812.3795d777@snowcone> (from ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com on Tue Feb 24 16:48:12 2009) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.3.28 Message-Id: <1235510283.3839.4@spike> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-Smarthost03-IP: [62.3.120.141] X-Archives-Salt: ad7f3ce2-a411-4599-b62a-41c14e0ecdfb X-Archives-Hash: 9532b5e83ae7b05720713d17e9facc1c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.02.24 16:48, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [snip] >=20 > PN and PV are metadata, same as EAPI. >=20 [snip] > --=20 > Ciaran McCreesh >=20 So we made a mistake with PN and PV and may compound it with EAPI. How long before we *must* have other pieces of information in the=20 filename? When will the filename get so long as to become unwhieldy ? Lets fix it properly now since it will be much more painful to put an=20 extendable solution in place later. It reminds me of other hacks in the history of the PC which we would do=20 well not to repeat. e.g. the MSDOS Partition Table, the Extended Partition, the High Memory=20 Area. =20 - --=20 Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmkZAsACgkQTE4/y7nJvatrUwCgpEKpHAF0hdbkZIJavjwXtABT eXAAoPlWbQ0B4+F3YFPjrjCXHjuwS2m1 =3Dr7kn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----