Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Allow bash-4.0 features in EAPI="3" ebuilds

[Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>]

Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
> 2009/5/17 Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>:
>> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
>>> 2009-05-17 18:37:32 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a):
>>>> On Sun, 17 May 2009 18:20:21 +0200
>>>> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I would like to suggest to include possibility of using of features of
>>>>> bash-4.0 (and older versions) in local scope of EAPI="3" ebuilds.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know that it's slightly late, but this change is very easy to
>>>>> implement (adjusting RDEPEND of new versions of package managers and
>>>>> updating PMS).
>>>> No good, for two reasons.
>>>>
>>>> First, this is a global scope change
>>> Why do you think that it is a global scope change?
>> Because he wants to push GLEP 55.
> 
> Would you care to look at [1] and see how it breaks first before
> posting BS like that? Better yet test it youtself.
> 
> [1] - http://dev.gentoo.org/~peper/glep-0055.html#use-newer-bash-features
> 
Okay, after reading the updated GLEP, I see what you mean. Let's
continue to discuss this in the GLEP 55 updated thread, and I promise to
be more constructive.

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Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison
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