On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:58:15 +0100 Thomas Pani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:59:14 +0800 > > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> And file extension like welcome.html.fr is quite self-explanatory. > >> But an total outsider has no chance to deduce what the 1 in > >> ebuild-1 means on his own. > > > > A total outsider doesn't need to know. The only people who will be > > dealing with .ebuild-* files are developers and power users. > > > And you are trying to set an even higher barrier for people to reach > that level. How many power users or devs do actually care/know what > EAPI=1 means?
Developers have to know about EAPIs. It's part of knowing how to write ebuilds. There's no way around that -- if you're writing ebuilds, you have to know what you are and aren't allowed to do in those ebuilds. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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