From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J4d01-0004V7-Qz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:00:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBIDxWoV020421; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:59:32 GMT Received: from shadow.wildlava.net (shadow.wildlava.net [67.40.138.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBIDvaNd018026 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:57:36 GMT Received: from [67.40.138.82] (crater.wildlava.net [67.40.138.82]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shadow.wildlava.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1658F429 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:57:35 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4767D1CD.9020301@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:57:33 -0700 From: Joe Peterson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071127) 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] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) References: <200712172320.01988.peper@gentoo.org> <47671006.2020808@gentoo.org> <20071218001855.78c1864c@blueyonder.co.uk> <18279.29725.449851.982897@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <18279.29725.449851.982897@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e6f8354d-feec-4210-a969-09e032244dd1 X-Archives-Hash: 3e0cc391976bd29160c7a36dc67ee5dc Ulrich Mueller wrote: > It seems to me that this will inconvenience the users, in order to > solve a technical problem of the package manager. Absolutely, +1. This does indeed sound like a technical issue; how would requiring a dev to manually mirror the EAPI in the filename extension provide any benefit over caching it behind the scenes (using the Manifest file or similar mechanism)? -Joe -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list