From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mp8aB-00023I-6J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:39:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E132E096E; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:38:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FF4E096E for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:38:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so1908038ewy.14 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:38:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=DhGAI2lk2PEtABn6CD6ew/CXnhGXhwtWG+nYEevwcFA=; b=Y5G1tP9HFdNPhXhp4peuwBAOvAjcXF3JAIJIEUKVnWoI+AkFub0HKMePpwARutqziG zdI6bisuYNtJQi0glGzHP30368cmXg9U+b0T97lh8Y8eUZph65iLm+b2CYAlUT7+eWbd xhTklRGeeOmNxaihe9oxwsGOIxc+Y93VEbjyE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=j0+J8dcYt4sNXGplFN1OMjoYYaELN62IB55Xke6+d1vBF2fRD96vnRIF+phsHenrGC ihsL9Hd+GpDnJHdg0N0XLKCYnu0+9UzIb3lWmIaOkHelOGOeqfjJOf5cCASrDA21AejC jqQDIiYMm4+H1e8993/QaK092KsCDOUro41R0= Received: by 10.210.9.13 with SMTP id 13mr3911023ebi.7.1253399935075; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:38:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowmobile (92-235-187-79.cable.ubr18.sgyl.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm4818644eye.38.2009.09.19.15.38.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:38:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:38:49 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: Andrew D Kirch Cc: Ulrich Mueller , Patrick Lauer , gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] tree-layout.tex small cleanup Message-ID: <20090919233849.1d7713f3@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <4AB55BBA.9070908@trelane.net> References: <200909192215.41235.patrick@gentoo.org> <20090919212541.269df025@snowcone> <200909192234.39415.patrick@gentoo.org> <20090919214515.6b314a3f@snowmobile> <19125.21814.705689.833261@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20090919231135.0539253b@snowmobile> <4AB55BBA.9070908@trelane.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/udlALzzNDrf4E.LLkuj_AS3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 9686d1ea-f90c-4334-a32d-9c9472c2ece5 X-Archives-Hash: a41ed8ccac87f245b3f96e3d88cb2cd1 --Sig_/udlALzzNDrf4E.LLkuj_AS3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:31:22 -0400 Andrew D Kirch wrote: > > But it was an official Gentoo project, and it was used in a > > repository run by the Gentoo KDE team. Remember that EAPI support > > is needed to be able to uninstall a package that was installed with > > a particular EAPI, so EAPIs can't be removed even when they're no > > longer in use. > > I can't agree here. While no process exists to remove deprecated EAPI > functionality, this sort of thing should be noted in the NEXT EAPI > RELEASED and via that method eliminated. Please explain what you mean. EAPIs are conceptually independent, and don't deprecate each other in any kind of way, and future EAPI releases can't retroactively change what previous EAPIs said. > This is a specifications document, not a history lesson covering past > mistakes. Getting off-topic here, but which parts of kdebuild-1 do you think were mistakes? Given how kdebuild-1 features are making their way into EAPIs 2, 3 and beyond as Portage gains support for them, I'm sure you don't mean that every feature was wrong, so which of the remaining ones do you think shouldn't be adopted and why? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/udlALzzNDrf4E.LLkuj_AS3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkq1XXwACgkQ96zL6DUtXhEwUgCffCxUwl9p/k12ws1eNPFHuQ4d ZfoAn2S2fjV2x0fqCemznB+O1oWSwybj =Nkhf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/udlALzzNDrf4E.LLkuj_AS3--