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 1MB4sf-0008Qs-Ab for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:36:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 932A6E0281; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 10:36:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wp165.webpack.hosteurope.de (wp165.webpack.hosteurope.de [80.237.132.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 650A1E0281 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 10:36:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 79.142.224.149.nat.router2.bolignet.dk ([79.142.224.149] helo=marsupilami.localnet); authenticated by wp165.webpack.hosteurope.de running ExIM with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) id 1MB4sc-0008Oc-Kw; Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:36:34 +0200 From: Thilo Bangert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A new glep: Ebuild format and metadata handling Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 12:35:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.30-rc5; KDE/4.2.3; i686; ; ) References: <200905311556.19190.patrick@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200905311556.19190.patrick@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo 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="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906011235.08025.bangert@gentoo.org> X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;bangert@gentoo.org;1243852595;281e22bd; X-Archives-Salt: 893ed336-f842-4379-a35a-06f04d67e045 X-Archives-Hash: 3ee69d97f2307f0e0d1b0bd158a3f31c > glep55: See GLEP55. To summarize: The eapi is put into the file name so > that the package manager knows the EAPI (and thus how to handle this > file format). While it simplifies the eapi discovery this comes at a > high price as there is no reliable way to find and validate all ebuilds. i must have missed the last point in the previous discussions. could someone perhaps point me to a post explaining the "high price" part? or just repeat it here.... thanks kind regards Thilo