Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

["Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:37:11PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Fernando J Pereda wrote:
> 
> >> > It seems to me that this will inconvenience the users, in order to
> >> > solve a technical problem of the package manager.
> >> 
> >> Absolutely, +1.  This does indeed sound like a technical issue; how
> >> would requiring a dev to manually mirror the EAPI in the filename
> >> extension provide any benefit over caching it behind the scenes (using
> >> the Manifest file or similar mechanism)?
> 
> > You are yet to show what kind of inconvenience to the users this
> > proposal will cause.
> 
> One example was mentioned in this thread before: You cannot use
> "find -name '*.ebuild'" anymore.

Yeah, and you cannot use 'give-me-my-ebuilds' to list them all... people
will have to improve their tools to work with EAPI-suffixed ebuilds.

> And as we have now learned that EAPI strings are not limited to digits
> (see ciaranm's message) and may even contain blanks (see grobian's
> message), we would have ebuilds with very strange filenames.

What's the problem with this?

- ferdy

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