Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI clarifications to skel.ebuild EAPI usage

2008-03-14 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Petteri Räty schrieb: solar reported that he had ebuild submissions blindly using EAPI=1 so we hopefully made the text better reflect that it should not be used unless absolutely needed. Regards, Petteri # Eclasses will test for this variable if they need to use EAPI > 0 features. -# Ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI clarifications to skel.ebuild EAPI usage

2008-03-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:14:47 -0600 RB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > non-system packages, the only thing stopping people from using > > EAPI 1 where useful is ludditism. > > While most of us appreciate your desire to move forward, ad-hominem > attacks (however subtle) really only serve to damage

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI clarifications to skel.ebuild EAPI usage

2008-03-13 Thread RB
> non-system packages, the only thing stopping people from using EAPI 1 where > useful is ludditism. While most of us appreciate your desire to move forward, ad-hominem attacks (however subtle) really only serve to damage your point. That said, this is the typical developer-wants-shiny-object,

Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI clarifications to skel.ebuild EAPI usage

2008-03-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 14 March 2008 03:29:26 Petteri Räty wrote: > solar reported that he had ebuild submissions blindly using EAPI=1 so we > hopefully made the text better reflect that it should not be used unless > absolutely needed. 'Absolutely' is far too strong a word. A better wording would be 'unless

[gentoo-dev] FYI clarifications to skel.ebuild EAPI usage

2008-03-13 Thread Petteri Räty
solar reported that he had ebuild submissions blindly using EAPI=1 so we hopefully made the text better reflect that it should not be used unless absolutely needed. Regards, Petteri [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/portage $ cvs diff -r 1.44 skel.ebuild Index: skel.ebuild ===