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 1M9QBp-0001Vv-NZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:57:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04B3FE0453; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:57:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAF32E0453 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:57:31 +0000 (UTC) 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 smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C05E667A7 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 20:57:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4A1DA935.3000007@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:57:25 -0600 From: Joe Peterson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090512) 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] Gentoo Council Reminder for May 28 References: <1243454143.3480.1@NeddySeagoon> In-Reply-To: <1243454143.3480.1@NeddySeagoon> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5c763920-dfc5-4d72-b73e-befd2648f6e2 X-Archives-Hash: a82575b94e9c36f61cd2c62f3c6e950e Roy Bamford wrote: > GLEP 55 still confuses the problem and the solution. > Adding metadata to the filename is not required and is bad system > design practice. Its also the first step on the slippery slope to > adding more metadata in the future. ++ > Changing the .ebuild extension, to blind existing PMs to new format > ebuilds, is probably a good thing as it means we can have both > formats in the tree at the same time and not wait a long time (year > plus) for users to be on a new package manager. Also, ++ > This allows the EAPI to be included within the ebuild where it belongs. > > That means the EAPI needs to be extracted before the ebuild is sourced, > which from the figures bandied about on the list may take marginaly > longer but its a price worth paying for a sound system design. > Gentoo should not repeat the VHS vs Betamax war. For those who do not > remember, VHS was the better marketed but inferior technical solution > that won the standards war for domestic Video recorders. :) Yep. And bad design decisions can haunt is for a long time. My preference is the one-time .ebuild->.eb change, and putting the EAPI on the first line, like a #!shebang. Very easy to extract, and good design. -Joe