From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:29:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090515172942.13c1ca62@snowmobile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3957741d4885eeb5a84ffcf262e58344@smtp.hushmail.com>
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On Fri, 15 May 2009 11:16:11 -0500
"Robert R. Russell" <nahoy_kbiki@hushmail.com> wrote:
> If I understand the problem GLEP 55 is trying to solve correctly, it
> stems from portage's assumption that an unknown EAPI is equal to EAPI
> 0. Could that assumption be changed to an unknown EAPI is equal to
> the latest supported EAPI. Now I understand that this change would
> have to wait until all the ebuilds in the portage tree correctly
> define their EAPI, but would the idea be technically feasible at
> least excluding EAPI0 ebuilds? I think it would be if all EAPIs are
> forward compatible up until the EAPI declaration in the ebuild.
No, that still wouldn't help, because the package manager doesn't know
that what it thinks is the 'latest' EAPI (not that there really is such
a thing -- EAPIs aren't a linear sequence) actually is the 'latest'
EAPI.
--
Ciaran McCreesh
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Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-14 18:06 [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55 Patrick Lauer
2009-05-14 18:39 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-14 19:05 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-05-14 19:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-14 19:17 ` RB
2009-05-14 19:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-14 19:24 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-05-14 19:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-14 19:16 ` Robert Bridge
2009-05-15 19:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2009-05-14 19:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tomáš Chvátal
2009-05-14 19:17 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-15 1:42 ` George Prowse
2009-05-15 7:30 ` David Leverton
2009-05-15 10:44 ` Richard Freeman
2009-05-15 16:16 ` Robert R. Russell
2009-05-15 16:29 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2009-05-15 19:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2009-05-15 19:17 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-15 20:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2009-05-15 20:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-24 20:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2009-05-24 21:10 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-15 20:32 ` [gentoo-dev] " David Leverton
2009-05-24 20:40 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2009-05-24 20:58 ` David Leverton
2009-05-14 19:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " David Leverton
2009-05-14 19:15 ` Jeremy Olexa
2009-05-14 19:24 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-14 20:03 ` Ben de Groot
2009-05-14 21:16 ` Peter Alfredsen
2009-05-14 21:49 ` William Hubbs
2009-05-14 21:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-14 22:44 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-05-15 18:58 ` Arun Raghavan
2009-05-15 19:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-26 14:06 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2009-05-15 19:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs
2009-05-15 19:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 9:27 ` Tobias Klausmann
2009-05-16 11:33 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2009-05-26 14:01 ` Steven J Long
2009-05-16 14:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 14:50 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2009-05-16 14:57 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 15:15 ` Richard Freeman
2009-05-16 15:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 15:34 ` Richard Freeman
2009-05-16 15:36 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 15:32 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tobias Klausmann
2009-05-16 15:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 15:43 ` Tobias Klausmann
2009-05-16 15:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 15:55 ` Tobias Klausmann
2009-05-16 15:57 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 16:15 ` Tobias Klausmann
2009-05-16 16:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 16:31 ` Tobias Klausmann
2009-05-16 16:38 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 16:54 ` Tobias Klausmann
2009-05-16 16:58 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 17:13 ` Tobias Klausmann
2009-05-16 17:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-17 4:54 ` Richard Freeman
2009-05-16 16:35 ` Arun Raghavan
2009-05-16 16:39 ` Thomas Anderson
2009-05-16 16:44 ` Arun Raghavan
2009-05-16 16:47 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 16:54 ` Arun Raghavan
2009-05-16 16:59 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 17:09 ` Arun Raghavan
2009-05-16 17:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 19:12 ` Arun Raghavan
2009-05-16 19:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-17 4:56 ` Arun Raghavan
2009-05-16 23:39 ` Nick Fortino
2009-05-16 23:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-17 1:17 ` Nick Fortino
2009-05-22 2:04 ` Robert R. Russell
2009-05-17 0:31 ` Ravi Pinjala
2009-05-17 4:35 ` Richard Freeman
2009-05-17 11:40 ` Thomas Anderson
2009-05-17 12:00 ` Arun Raghavan
2009-05-17 0:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2009-05-17 0:50 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-17 1:58 ` Duncan
2009-05-17 4:43 ` Richard Freeman
2009-05-17 7:29 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-05-17 11:14 ` David Leverton
2009-05-17 7:40 ` Tiziano Müller
2009-05-17 8:01 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-05-16 16:39 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 18:38 ` Robert Buchholz
2009-05-16 18:42 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 9:27 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2009-05-16 9:59 ` David Leverton
2009-05-16 11:11 ` Ben de Groot
2009-05-16 18:10 ` William Hubbs
2009-05-16 18:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 18:22 ` William Hubbs
2009-05-16 12:14 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2009-05-16 14:15 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-16 17:28 ` David Leverton
2009-05-16 20:00 ` Joe Peterson
2009-05-16 20:11 ` Denis Dupeyron
2009-05-16 20:13 ` Denis Dupeyron
2009-05-17 8:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alistair Bush
2009-05-17 13:04 ` Richard Freeman
2009-05-16 21:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mark Bateman
2009-05-16 22:06 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-17 4:07 ` Mark Bateman
2009-05-17 16:35 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-17 16:54 ` Patrick Lauer
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