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 1Er3d9-0004rs-7N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:27:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBR1QckV019821; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:26:38 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 jBR1NQGS021829 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:23:27 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 1Er3Yk-0002Lj-O3 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:23:26 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Er3Yg-00069t-7p for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:23:22 +0000 Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:23:14 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support Message-ID: <20051227012314.5bcfe242@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051227011753.GD5809@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> <20051227010349.629ca32b@snowdrop.home> <20051227011753.GD5809@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_6TNBJ7cdW91AyC0EE/F6KeM"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 4597ce69-f824-42e2-a549-ab29e91aa1ea X-Archives-Hash: d14b69869e76296181195197c9a63bcd --Sig_6TNBJ7cdW91AyC0EE/F6KeM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:17:54 -0800 Brian Harring wrote: | On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:03:49AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > 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 transition to incompatible changes instead of the usual | > | "work out a semi backwards compatible way, don't use it for 6 | > | months, then deal with the bugs". | >=20 | > 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 | Guessing you're missing how EAPI works. The scenario you're pointing=20 | at isn't an issue for EAPI aware portage versions. Nooo! That's exactly the point I was making. Carsten is assuming that by using [slot:bar] syntax, no backwards incompatibility will be introduced by adding a new [fish:] key. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_6TNBJ7cdW91AyC0EE/F6KeM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDsJeJ96zL6DUtXhERAk5HAJ0RM2P4S3vCeITtuLVPMHwrDhKnDgCfUMyM +jeftzy+Y052zWWiKvbnPII= =/Vd+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_6TNBJ7cdW91AyC0EE/F6KeM-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list