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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council]
Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:21:25 -0800
> Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Somewhat ironically, had everyone been less stubborn last year when
>> discussing this topic we could have embedded the EAPI in line X of the
>> ebuild in 2008 and be using it now; instead of still discussing it.
>
> ...and we wouldn't be able to change the version rules, and we would be
> suffering a substantial performance hit.
Hey I never said its a perfect solution; but I'm a fan of the 'it
covers 80%'. Sometimes you can't have your cake and eat it too;
sometimes requirements get dropped.
-A
>
> --
> Ciaran McCreesh
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