On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:29:04 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:55:22 -0600 > Ryan Hill <dirtye...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > That's a seperate thing that needs EAPI control. You'll need to > > > propose it for EAPI 4 if you want that. > > > > Why is that (seriously curious, not disagreeing)? Portage has > > supported this for quite a while now. Does the current PMS disallow > > it? > > Yup. We based the PMS wording upon the Portage documentation and the > commit message that introduced the feature, both of which explicitly > say it's only for /etc/portage/ use, not tree use. Portage's support > for directories like that in the tree is an undocumented fluke caused > by using the same code for user and tree configuration parsing without > adding extra strictness checks for the tree. Alright, thanks. -- gcc-porting, Character is what you are in the dark. treecleaner, wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662
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