From: Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES use or misuse?
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:33:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF0CBD3.5050402@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911032304.58321.patrick@gentoo.org>
Patrick Lauer wrote:
> Calling EAPI is ... well ... I can't even think of a place to start to explain
> how wrong it is. How on earth are you going to parse an eclass that supports
> multiple EAPIs where one EAPI were to support features of bash 4?
> The only way to do it would be to force bash 4 on all lower EAPIs, or make
> per-EAPI eclasses, or forbid use of new bash features in eclasses.
> All horrible ways to avoid fixing the problem.
I find restricting the eclass to Bash 3 is a natural, maintainable
approach to this. How would "fixing he problem" work from your perspective?
> All workaroundable by just
> accepting things as they are.
What do you mean by "accepting things as they are"?
You have been talking of "accepting reality" repeatedly and I'm left
wondering what you actually mean by that. I especially fail to see who
is trying to conceal(?) reality and reality about what.
Sebastian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-03 15:48 [gentoo-dev] FEATURES use or misuse? Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 17:27 ` Sebastian Pipping
2009-11-03 20:36 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 20:58 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-11-03 22:28 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-04 0:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2009-11-04 8:26 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-05 1:36 ` Ryan Hill
2009-11-05 4:56 ` [gentoo-dev] a pragmatic approach to FEATURES [was FEATURES use or misuse?] Brian Harring
2009-11-05 8:49 ` Thilo Bangert
2009-11-05 9:36 ` Brian Harring
2009-11-08 9:21 ` Thilo Bangert
2009-11-03 21:26 ` [gentoo-dev] FEATURES use or misuse? Alexis Ballier
2009-11-03 22:04 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 22:26 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-11-04 0:33 ` Sebastian Pipping [this message]
2009-11-04 8:26 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-11-03 23:04 ` David Leverton
2009-11-04 1:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2009-11-04 22:12 ` Peter Hjalmarsson
2009-11-05 5:04 ` Brian Harring
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