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* Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
  @ 2007-12-18  7:17 99%     ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2007-12-18  7:17 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

>>>>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> | Possibility to extend the behaviour of inherit and add new global
> | scope functions (as a result of not sourcing ebuilds with
> | unsupported EAPI).

It seems to me that this will inconvenience the users, in order to
solve a technical problem of the package manager.

Is this really the right way to go?

>> Making the file extension variable by adding "-<EAPI>" to it would,
>> in my opinion, make the portage tree a bit less clean and not as
>> elegant.

+1

>> Wouldn't software (like editors determining file type by looking at
>> what is after the ".") also need to be reworked to recognize a
>> variable string after "-" at the end?

> Yep, but that's not very difficult. And as a side effect, editors
> could then provide EAPI aware highlighting.

They can also do this if EAPI is set within the file.

Ulrich
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