Re: [gentoo-osx] Re: Attempt to use prefix on linux as secondary...

[m h <sesquile@gmail.com>]

Brian -
Thanks for chiming in here.  And thanks for your efforts. (I was able
to meet Seemant in India two weeks ago, and he couldn't say enough
good about you).

On 12/16/05, Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:51:26PM -0800, m h wrote:
> > While I'm firing off questions, any hints as to why there are no
> > ebuilds to satisfy bash?  (I'm starting through the depgraph code, but
> > it is hairy and ugly....)
> prefix portage _only_ allows using EAPI="prefix" ebuilds right now.
>
> Down the line, if prefix is approved/integrated, then an actual EAPI
> release will be used instead of the fake one created.
>
> Either way, why there are no ebuilds is due to portage automatically
> filtering out all ebuilds that lack a matching EAPI.
>
> It's a protection feature, if portage doesn't know of that EAPI level,
> it won't allow the user to use it.

As far as I understand EAPI is used to define a sort of super class
(in OO terms) for an ebuild.  (Feel free to correct).
I'm using Kito's prefixed ebuilds, which have the line
EAPI="prefix"
in them.

I'm not specifying the overlay right now, but I'm sure there are other
environment errors.  I'm assumming if I deal with them, this issue
will go away.

matt

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