From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M5PJk-00015X-1h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 May 2009 19:13:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55A3EE0602; Sat, 16 May 2009 19:13:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6C5E0602 for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 19:13:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.110] (unknown [117.192.140.249]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD0CE65115 for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 19:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55 From: Arun Raghavan To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20090516185508.0fd02f0e@snowmobile> References: <20090514225337.34df7dac@snowcone> <20090515194329.GA16382@linux1> <20090515204905.54aa6a5c@snowmobile> <20090516092710.GA3221@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <20090516151216.15efc792@snowmobile> <20090516153224.GA4964@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <20090516163421.32935cbc@snowmobile> <20090516154332.GA6646@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <20090516164903.261df865@snowmobile> <1242491708.7309.3.camel@peripatetic.hades> <20090516163908.GB11144@dodo.hsd1.nj.comcast.net> <1242492270.7309.6.camel@peripatetic.hades> <20090516174730.1d7dd5b7@snowmobile> <1242492844.7309.9.camel@peripatetic.hades> <20090516175931.7756060d@snowmobile> <1242493786.7309.17.camel@peripatetic.hades> <20090516185508.0fd02f0e@snowmobile> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-BSuDuZ2lSy86XiI5pa01" Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 00:42:58 +0530 Message-Id: <1242501178.7309.126.camel@peripatetic.hades> 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 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1.1 X-Archives-Salt: 37956de6-ae14-4840-8637-2dce5ce48b75 X-Archives-Hash: e3f4b9a89b4ceaf06169be471b392b7c --=-BSuDuZ2lSy86XiI5pa01 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 18:55 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [...] > You have yet to provide an alternative for fixing the arbitrary and > pointless version format restrictions that are currently in place. Create an EAPI for the required changes, fast track inclusion to a stable portage. If this is not viable, make an unrecognised version string cause the same fallback as an unsupported EAPI =3D> ignore the ebuild. Again, fast track to stable portage, and not so long after, you're done. -- Arun --=-BSuDuZ2lSy86XiI5pa01 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkoPEDoACgkQ+Vqt1inD4uxTHgCglF9itfgmIjJw3TIz8qfU4pmY 6acAoI0sSUfMPosDcfsN0+u96IEI+jDU =k8zj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-BSuDuZ2lSy86XiI5pa01--