From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M5OKo-0001Z1-BW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 May 2009 18:10:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEC4DE0315; Sat, 16 May 2009 18:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.122]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E76E0315 for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 18:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from linux1.localdomain ([66.25.35.110]) by cdptpa-omta01.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090516181008364.COMG13751@cdptpa-omta01.mail.rr.com> for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 18:10:08 +0000 Received: by linux1.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D567943C03; Sat, 16 May 2009 13:10:07 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 13:10:07 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55 Message-ID: <20090516181007.GA8308@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200905142006.51998.patrick@gentoo.org> <20090515204905.54aa6a5c@snowmobile> <4A0E8717.5070600@gentoo.org> <200905161059.53706.levertond@googlemail.com> <4A0E9F66.1070508@gentoo.org> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A0E9F66.1070508@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 002a5c9f-57c4-42c1-b840-c2f685972731 X-Archives-Hash: 3e8837c9cc03606e42cd79d314c6cdb0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 01:11:34PM +0200, Ben de Groot wrote: > David Leverton wrote: > > But the point isn't that we want to be able to do those things. The point is > > that if the EAPI is in the filename, it's blatantly obvious that it has to be > > static, but adding strange and unintuitive restrictions on which shell > > constructs can be used is, well, strange and unintuitive. > > Except that we aren't talking about strange and unintuitive. All we are > saying is basically documenting current usage: put a line with EAPI= > near the top. That's very straighforward and intuitive. Plus, it works. Agreed. The way I have always usedEAPI is, you set it once at the top of the EBUILD and you are done with it. As far as I know, there is no reason to change EAPI once it is set, and eclasses shouldn't be changing it. - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead williamh@gentoo.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoPAX8ACgkQblQW9DDEZTizJACfarJ8hZh4WQ7GC0kuraqTba9u FhkAn29jolc1O5D/jMWWA6TJaJcUZtbQ =529O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----