From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Er3IJ-0000gZ-F2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:06:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBR15jiS019503; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:05:45 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBR13rJb019002 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:03:53 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1Er3Fo-0003KB-Qr for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:03:52 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Er3Fn-0005li-JI for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:03:51 +0000 Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:03:49 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support Message-ID: <20051227010349.629ca32b@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051227005707.GB5809@nightcrawler.e-centre.net> References: <43A235AD.6030604@leetworks.com> <200512262109.39704.carlo@gentoo.org> <20051226202833.4c5fe9f9@snowdrop.home> <200512270133.19909.carlo@gentoo.org> <20051227004649.798c7794@snowdrop.home> <20051227005707.GB5809@nightcrawler.e-centre.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_UKzSNeGRW738/UNgjFJXX.k"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: cbded38b-e1e9-496a-8c25-e85f461cae53 X-Archives-Hash: 9ea0ab7373da7bf6b252174c4d89717a --Sig_UKzSNeGRW738/UNgjFJXX.k Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:57:07 -0800 Brian Harring wrote: | Not saying it's a great idea, but EAPI exists to provide immediate=20 | transition to incompatible changes instead of the usual "work out a=20 | semi backwards compatible way, don't use it for 6 months, then deal=20 | with the bugs". Addition of any new dependency filtering criterion is a backwards incompatible change anyway. If you add, say, [fish:trout] and older versions of Portage don't recognise [fish:], there's no way for said older Portage versions to know what to do. Being able to parse additional DEPEND constructs is not sufficient. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_UKzSNeGRW738/UNgjFJXX.k Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDsJL396zL6DUtXhERAiKVAKDS1DqhKso/ZgHpgA117/n+TonGMQCgkbOS ip+v9uG975l0tUzirAA8qzo= =nZb4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_UKzSNeGRW738/UNgjFJXX.k-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list