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 1K6HA1-0001VV-3A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:38:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9D84E04BF; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B12EE04BF for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z27so11749ugc.49 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:38:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=2ZM3uST+0WMbAAeiffnrQDzYVbuRDb3TQfisaKeByls=; b=OdkLl0VX+x/IOLoaauMHn/WHtHu8ZgLhsdkp7jql2+FGzYmHUKxXnVPhy+5OIm+0Uh O2jbngWjfvR8NzNCO0DZBbPIThqnspgV7Cw96wFTGb/zECxtQTI6rwkmbJxAwBHumtC3 KZg1u/Vn+300yz52oeRxt9qUemAahuap0+M+k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=HzUVo8uehdStWWCWrFckbi/aYsbd00hYmzt7Se0eG2J+/GuButv2MLUyY0UtXwlM0x CTdIi1oWohs2cuD60UUp0kUCPh3QiG21RfP58EXE9/G4HuQytvrShtwi5Fo062crfgXK PpJJz4WtxOXFiROMwhqNB7cAlBnC7HsJeK8yE= Received: by 10.66.221.19 with SMTP id t19mr839243ugg.40.1213155486720; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:38:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ( [213.121.151.206]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q40sm2988850ugc.6.2008.06.10.20.38.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:38:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:38:01 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] extending existing EAPI semantics Message-ID: <20080611043801.1b4954d7@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080611033311.GC9494@seldon.metaweb.com> References: <20080611025622.GA9494@seldon.metaweb.com> <20080611042004.6d411d8e@googlemail.com> <20080611033311.GC9494@seldon.metaweb.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/U4MuY/LDqmKfBzqJ9V29068"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 00fb6d90-59f6-49ed-b9f1-4e0ed02941dc X-Archives-Hash: 90bd3b22dbad3f71544e77e258e9402d --Sig_/U4MuY/LDqmKfBzqJ9V29068 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:33:11 -0700 Brian Harring wrote: > > If profile.bashrc is to be kept, it means massively reducing what > > can be done in there. >=20 > Restraint in use of profile.bashrc is a per community QA measure, not=20 > a format restriction- think through the other "this is better for QA"=20 > things I've suggested PMS wise, you've responded in the same manner. Except that if profile.bashrc can tinker with package manager internals, it has to be done in such a way that it works with all package managers. So it has to be either Portage-specific or extremely constrained. > > > * doesn't address versioning changes. > >=20 > > Or indeed any change where the ebuild can't be visible to older > > package managers without breaking them. > >=20 > > So basically it's not a solution at all. >=20 > Name a scenario. You already named one, and tried to gloss it over as not being the complete showstopper that it is. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/U4MuY/LDqmKfBzqJ9V29068 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhPSJwACgkQ96zL6DUtXhGjowCdG+hh/+zyxARkJVO9b2Dc4t3S 6nkAn2fTFU+EwHV3jLlDGpAbDZdqFGZP =9STC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/U4MuY/LDqmKfBzqJ9V29068-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list