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 1S5hZ9-0006M6-UD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:55:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C638E08F8; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:55:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F7EE0799 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:54:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbfm10 with SMTP id fm10so695599wgb.10 for ; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:54:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; bh=QQjb8LF2TmeT9TXit0gCp3r+MZl8qO0qnJAz81qOoYU=; b=1BLcGze4KZkNM9Q3S2XFjvnirvL9uxBSU4fkCwxJWI8DmlsYXwbg2HOj6gzHPPp/oH tS1mOBWr8erkukp32EKop0zdy3zOZoXc5WCQtdZs87T0heufRURxBSIxKCSTfDW5hNdX ajDx3272PEZ+cnxCwsS19ji3yPCa0Op7l1d7r1eI86mk+yVb294KjFhhVAtTkk6Oj0qA o7hPhlPqQ4X01N58xbVrDJklG34ytB9Sdkz/EerCG5h0A8CZJ1D7oEK3dV58gcRTHGcl XBeO4AYq0o73Lzsm1EHKWA5Fl0jbhYai1gutnr9BoudlRRBioZlHZ4jjYkQBI+OC1BJJ esyA== Received: by 10.180.101.72 with SMTP id fe8mr14908500wib.4.1331229298166; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:54:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (cpc13-broo7-2-0-cust130.14-2.cable.virginmedia.com. [82.9.16.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w14sm32889036wiv.11.2012.03.08.09.54.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:54:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:53:45 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds Message-ID: <20120308175345.2c4b72ff@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F58F103.5010503@orlitzky.com> References: <20311.51166.725757.212932@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <4F57DDB5.3090503@orlitzky.com> <20120308130310.69c3c714@pomiocik.lan> <4F58D6A5.7070804@orlitzky.com> <20120308182844.11201771@pomiocik.lan> <4F58F103.5010503@orlitzky.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/UG4UVeexlPenICzeXYhnm64"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 34413ffa-0548-4174-bf80-cc191a01aad2 X-Archives-Hash: e3b8791e06760666282f35a1e429b53d --Sig_/UG4UVeexlPenICzeXYhnm64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:48:51 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 03/08/2012 12:28 PM, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > > And something will need to provide that /usr/bin/eapi4 thing. And > > that introduces new problems: >=20 > I'm just parroting someone else's suggestion; I don't really know > enough about the details to answer these properly. Not that that will > stop me. It probably should. Although in the early days the model for ebuilds was that they were scripts that were "executed", nowadays there's so much support required that it's better to think of ebuilds as being data. If you did have a /usr/bin/eapi5, it would have to be implemented as something that invoked the package manager, not as a direct interpreter. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/UG4UVeexlPenICzeXYhnm64 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9Y8jEACgkQ96zL6DUtXhFzpACfdEH6jrZQKCZjVRI+EQDVhX/l E9gAnijmUwM3bydmCdkAc4UpE5CX01Wz =2q0b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/UG4UVeexlPenICzeXYhnm64--