On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:07:32 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> There's a less extreme variant on this that's slightly cleaner, and
> with appropriate weaseling is also less messy. Simply add the
> following very carefully worded additional requirement for future
> EAPIs, and retroactively impose it upon current ones:
> 
> If EAPI is to be set, it must be set strictly before any global scope
> command or package manager defined function is called. Once set, EAPI
> must not be set to a different value.

...not quite weasely enough. Also needs:

and before any package manager defined variables are used or package
manager set shell behaviour is relied upon.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh