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 1J4zqR-0001Va-Mh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:24:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBJENL7Q030156; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:23:22 GMT Received: from smtp-out3.libero.it (smtp-out3.libero.it [212.52.84.43]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBJEKlps026590 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:20:47 GMT Received: from mailrelay07.libero.it (192.168.32.94) by smtp-out3.libero.it (7.3.120) id 4628C87A008CB3B3 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:20:47 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAACO3aEeXORDv/2dsb2JhbAAIqW8 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.0.6]) ([151.57.16.239]) by OutRelay-b07.libero.it with ESMTP; 19 Dec 2007 15:20:34 +0100 Message-ID: <47692834.7020804@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:18:28 +0100 From: Luca Barbato 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> <476714BA.3070202@gentoo.org> <20071218003938.62df389e@blueyonder.co.uk> <20071218093630.GA29854@gentoo.org> <20071218100356.3a78bf8d@blueyonder.co.uk> <20071218203808.GB4815@gentoo.org> <20071218235935.362d924c@blueyonder.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20071218235935.362d924c@blueyonder.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4c61261e-873d-412e-b7bd-97008c334f4c X-Archives-Hash: ab3176aff3af8a89ee088a5bd95df38c Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:38:08 +0100 > Fabian Groffen wrote: >> Just to have it spelt out, what you suggest here is that EAPI has a >> single value, a word or a number, that refers to a set of "features >> and rules", if I understand correctly. >> >> With this way of using EAPI I fail to see why EAPIs aren't orderable. >> Even with the example you gave in the previous mail, it looks like a >> perfect succession of EAPIs. > > It doesn't *have* to be a perfect succession. It's entirely possible > that there will be, say, two divergent EAPI branches or even that there > will be a completely unrelated new EAPI format. > What's the point in having such thing? lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list