From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Reviving GLEP33
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:35:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803083515.5e3ee904@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C573EBB.3080005@gentoo.org>
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On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:55:07 +0200
Matti Bickel <mabi@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > No, you can't make global scope changes just in an EAPI without
> > screwing up user systems. You have to do the whole "wait several
> > years" thing for them.
>
> Bad. So I guess it's back to ferring's "use a new directory not
> readable by old PMs" idea. GLEP55++, but having to wait several
> months for that and GLEP33 *on top* is not very motivation for me.
Unlike the other ways of allowing new global scope functions, GLEP 55
doesn't require a wait, and it doesn't require mass fixing of existing
packages. That's part of the point of it. GLEP 55 can be rolled out and
used as quickly as the code to support it in Portage is unreverted.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-02 9:56 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Reviving GLEP33 Matti Bickel
2010-08-02 11:11 ` Brian Harring
2010-08-02 18:16 ` David Leverton
2010-08-02 21:40 ` Matti Bickel
2010-08-02 22:17 ` David Leverton
2010-08-02 23:10 ` Matti Bickel
2010-08-02 19:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-08-02 21:47 ` Matti Bickel
2010-08-02 22:10 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-08-03 7:32 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-08-02 20:15 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-08-02 21:55 ` Matti Bickel
2010-08-03 7:35 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2010-08-05 3:27 ` Brian Harring
2010-08-05 17:22 ` Matti Bickel
2010-08-05 23:43 ` Jeremy Olexa
2010-08-06 11:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2010-08-06 3:52 ` [gentoo-dev] " Brian Harring
2010-08-06 16:15 ` David Leverton
2010-08-06 17:27 ` Brian Harring
2010-08-06 17:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-08-06 18:18 ` Brian Harring
2010-08-06 18:34 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-08-12 18:04 ` Brian Harring
2010-08-12 7:51 ` Ben de Groot
2010-08-12 8:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-08-12 9:06 ` Thilo Bangert
2010-08-12 12:04 ` David Leverton
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