[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Make 10.0 profiles EAPI-2 'compliant'

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:22:54 +0200
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 2009-08-22 21:39:47 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a):
> > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:54:22 +0100
> > AllenJB <gentoo-lists@allenjb.me.uk> wrote:
> > > Could there be room for "fast track" EAPI's to be considered on some
> > > occasions - eg. in this case an EAPI-2.1 which is simply EAPI-2 with
> > > the "package.* as directory in profiles" feature included?
> > 
> > It's a possibility, since it's zero cost for Portage and an easy one
> > to word into the specification.
> > 
> > Another possibly nicer option would be to add the feature into EAPI 3.
> > However, if we're considering this, we'd have to be absolutely totally
> > clear that this isn't a call to open up EAPI 3 for yet more changes.
> 
> EAPI=3 can be opened also for other changes trivial to implement (e.g. allowing
> bash-4.0 features).
> 

That's exactly the 'yet more changes' we're trying to avoid.


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