On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:30:50 -0700 Joe Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> I imagine a lot of people do things now like 'find . -name > >> "*.ebuild" | xargs grep ...'. Not that they could not change > >> their habbits, but forgetting to add a more complex matching rule > >> could lead to errors here. > > > > -name '*.ebuild*' isn't exactly much more complex... > > No, but to be more "correct" it shouldn't be that open-ended. For > example, it really should be a regexp that only allows a dash followed > by digits (and then nothing after). Not hard, but if forgotten, it > could yield misleading results. Perhaps it's more the "feel" of it > that bothers me, and once this path is taken, there is no going back.
An EAPI is not limited to a numeric name. We could call the next EAPI "cabbage" if we wanted to. There're already various experimental EAPIs that don't use pure numbers (for example, "paludis-1"). (Sometimes I think the next EAPI *should* be called "cabbage", if only because it'll help disabuse people of the notion that EAPIs are orderable...) -- Ciaran McCreesh
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