From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FgiJN-0004oa-2i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 13:13:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4IDBMvP032383; Thu, 18 May 2006 13:11:22 GMT Received: from buggy.blubb.ch (cable-static-87-245-102-53.shinternet.ch [87.245.102.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4ID6lj1022914 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 13:06:48 GMT Received: from aqua ([192.168.10.5]) by buggy.blubb.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Fgi8X-0000Sa-ME for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 May 2006 15:01:53 +0200 Message-ID: <446C7167.7050403@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 15:06:47 +0200 From: Simon Stelling User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060308) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass db-use References: <200605181148.50988.pauldv@gentoo.org> <20060518112546.GC16382@woodpecker.gentoo.org> <200605181501.11941.pauldv@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200605181501.11941.pauldv@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 88ca623f-32ad-4525-8f9b-edcc365dc3a8 X-Archives-Hash: 070e6f706e1bb571383474fea9261186 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > It has not been. As far as I know such a requirement does not exist. In It does. The reason for it is pretty good, as kloeri mentioned: The API of an eclass may never change. See GLEP 33 for some horror scenarios [1] ;) [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0033.html -- Kind Regards, Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list