Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

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On Sun, 17 May 2009 18:20:21 +0200
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to suggest to include possibility of using of features of
> bash-4.0 (and older versions) in local scope of EAPI="3" ebuilds.
> 
> I know that it's slightly late, but this change is very easy to
> implement (adjusting RDEPEND of new versions of package managers and
> updating PMS).

No good, for two reasons.

First, this is a global scope change, and we can't make global scope
changes to EAPIs using current mechanisms. EAPIs have to carry on using
bash 3 until the EAPI mechanism is changed.

Second, by order of the Council, EAPI 3's feature list was locked
several weeks ago. If we ignore that for one thing, it just means
everyone else who had features that came along too late will start
demanding we reconsider those too...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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