[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55: another approach: display pretty messages with old PMs

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@gentoo.org> posted
1243610264.27150.293.camel@sapc154.salomon.at, excerpted below, on  Fri,
29 May 2009 17:17:44 +0200:

> Wouldn't it be possible to avoid both the extension change and another
> extended wait period for new incompatible(*) EAPIs, when we do this
> early and silent exit hack for unsupported ebuilds with old PMs that
> still do full interpretation for EAPI detection?

Possibly.  I forgot about the context (the inherit eapi.eclass hack) when 
I wrote the previous (until /after/ I posted, naturally, probably when 
you noticed that 4.ebuild thing too, of course =:^).

But the possibility had been proposed before and I don't remember what 
came of it, nor have I been following close enough to know if there's 
another caveat somewhere that shoots down the eapi.eclass hack, or not.  
I'm sure someone else will supply the reason it didn't go anywhere.

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