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 1M5Hn0-0000ds-HJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0753FE0444; Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.zeelandnet.nl (smtp4.zeelandnet.nl [212.115.192.231]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C35F7E044A for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 11:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.130] (cable-186-3.zeelandnet.nl [82.176.186.3]) by mail.zeelandnet.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE25C18408E for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 13:10:47 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A0E9F66.1070508@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 13:11:34 +0200 From: Ben de Groot Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090321) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55 References: <200905142006.51998.patrick@gentoo.org> <20090515204905.54aa6a5c@snowmobile> <4A0E8717.5070600@gentoo.org> <200905161059.53706.levertond@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905161059.53706.levertond@googlemail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 474b3e2a-f79c-48dc-9656-fb313e77c68f X-Archives-Hash: c5a90ff0c637c917fd556f2248bc6b70 David Leverton wrote: > But the point isn't that we want to be able to do those things. The point is > that if the EAPI is in the filename, it's blatantly obvious that it has to be > static, but adding strange and unintuitive restrictions on which shell > constructs can be used is, well, strange and unintuitive. Except that we aren't talking about strange and unintuitive. All we are saying is basically documenting current usage: put a line with EAPI= near the top. That's very straighforward and intuitive. Plus, it works. Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison ______________________________________________________