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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:41:54 +0000
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55  (Was: [gentoo-council] 
 Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:37:36 -0500
Jim Ramsay <lack@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > They only ended up nicely documented after people moaned a lot that
> > they were having a hard time keeping track of EAPIs...
>=20
> You can't possibly be suggesting that everyone will be able to keep an
> ever-increasing number of feature sets in his or her mind, or that
> changing from a two-level to a one-level EAPI definition will remove
> the need for documentation going forward, so I'm not sure what you
> mean by this.

That's exactly what I mean. Developers can probably just about keep up
with the two or three EAPIs they'll ever be working with on a regular
basis, but they probably can't keep up with that if you double it.

--=20
Ciaran McCreesh

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