From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:28:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5E243C.5010102@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120312161242.565798ed@googlemail.com>
On 03/12/2012 09:12 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:05:26 -0700
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> It's just a symptom of people not abiding by the KISS principle.
>
> "Abiding by the KISS principle" is what got us into this mess in the
> first place. EAPI as a metadata variable is too simple to allow us to
> do what we want to do.
If our goal is to obtain the EAPI before the ebuild is sourced, then
GLEP 55 is more in alignment with the KISS principle. The "EAPI as
metadata variable" approach simply wasn't designed with our current goal
in mind.
--
Thanks,
Zac
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Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-07 20:41 [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-07 20:44 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-07 21:07 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-03-07 22:04 ` David Leverton
2012-03-07 22:14 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-08 0:17 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-08 12:03 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-08 15:56 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-08 17:28 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-08 17:48 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-08 17:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 18:37 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-08 18:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 21:35 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-08 23:31 ` Alec Warner
2012-03-09 3:05 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 5:04 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-09 5:35 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 5:51 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 14:42 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 15:05 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 15:21 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 15:41 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 15:51 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-03-09 15:58 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 16:49 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 16:57 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 19:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-10 16:06 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-12 1:55 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-12 4:08 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-12 8:36 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-12 15:35 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-12 16:05 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-12 16:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-12 16:28 ` Zac Medico [this message]
2012-03-14 2:01 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-14 2:16 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 15:52 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-03-09 16:15 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 16:33 ` Eray Aslan
2012-03-09 16:43 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 16:29 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-09 16:57 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 17:11 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-09 17:31 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 17:47 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 18:03 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 19:08 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12 2:03 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-12 2:20 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12 2:24 ` Alec Warner
2012-03-12 6:57 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 6:50 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 7:08 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-12 7:39 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 8:27 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-12 8:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-12 9:09 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-12 9:16 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 9:48 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-12 10:12 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 15:20 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12 17:01 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-12 17:30 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12 17:46 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-12 19:20 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12 8:39 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-12 9:10 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-12 3:55 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 17:52 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-12 1:00 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-09 18:02 ` James Broadhead
2012-03-09 18:24 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-03-09 18:29 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 18:33 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-09 18:56 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-09 19:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-09 20:09 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-19 1:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-03-19 1:36 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-19 3:21 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-24 13:24 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-03-07 22:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-03-08 2:22 ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-03-08 16:14 ` [gentoo-dev] Ebb (eb) was: " Todd Goodman
2012-03-08 4:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alec Warner
2012-03-08 7:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-08 8:13 ` Alec Warner
2012-03-08 15:27 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-08 16:11 ` David Leverton
2012-03-08 16:21 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-08 16:29 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 16:50 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-08 16:59 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-03-08 17:03 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 19:17 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-08 19:31 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 19:48 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-03-08 9:42 ` Marc Schiffbauer
2012-03-08 16:30 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-08 16:35 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 17:07 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-08 17:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 17:30 ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-03-08 17:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-10 1:06 ` Kent Fredric
2012-03-10 13:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-09 11:28 ` Marc Schiffbauer
2012-03-08 12:06 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-08 15:58 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-03-08 16:51 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-08 17:03 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-08 16:47 ` Mike Gilbert
2012-03-08 17:52 ` Michał Górny
2012-03-08 17:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-08 18:22 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-08 19:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-03-08 19:38 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-03-09 0:50 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-18 7:23 ` Ralph Sennhauser
2012-03-18 11:18 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-18 11:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-12 19:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-12 20:19 ` Mike Frysinger
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