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 1NKqhu-0007hD-1U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:02:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A92ABE0AAD for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [82.95.138.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563F8E0A7D for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tefnut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:888:1022:0:211:24ff:fe37:e46e] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NKpZF-0001dA-0x for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:49:09 +0100 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:48:41 +0100 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI={3,4} offset-prefix semantics mandatory? Message-ID: <20091216084840.GE21795@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20091215185944.GA9600@gentoo.org> <1260944947.29419.156.camel@tablet> 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=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1260944947.29419.156.camel@tablet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (Darwin 8.11.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Content-Scanned: by amun.cheops.ods.org (Exim Exiscan) using SpamAssassin and ClamAV Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 5e69f5c1-12db-4edb-b04e-c72a25f065ac X-Archives-Hash: 4f952dcbf33d1242ab2f67f92927ae66 On 16-12-2009 09:29:07 +0300, Peter Volkov wrote: > =D0=92 =D0=92=D1=82=D1=80, 15/12/2009 =D0=B2 19:59 +0100, Fabian Groffe= n =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > > Should an ebuild using an EAPI that has offset-prefix support make = the > > use of that support mandatory or optional? >=20 > I think no. Without real testing that package works in prefix there is > no need to bother and create illusion that it does. Does your no mean mandatory or optional? > > (I can post all the answers to the Prefix quiz) >=20 > I think this is good idea in any case. Could you post this (on -core, o= f > course)? I'll remove all the bits from the quiz that are (no longer) relevant, and then post them, and their answers. I don't see much secret in the answers, or do recruiters want to use some of the questions for future quizzes? --=20 Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level