Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:59:37 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About glep-54: > > emerge code-scm > > what should fetch? > > (given that code is an editor and code-scm is a plugin adding scm > support...) code-scm. There is no way of distinguishing between a c/p and a c/p-v, whic

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-17 Thread Luca Barbato
Ryan Hill wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:16:36 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: Wow, impressive. Actually, you can't be serious... I am. GLEP 54 for quite some time now and it works very well. adds nothing to - and sets usage as is. I just don't se

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-16 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:16:36 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bernd Steinhauser wrote: > > Wow, impressive. > > > > Actually, you can't be serious... > > I am. > > GLEP 54 for quite some time now and it works very well. > > adds nothing to - and sets usage as is. > > I just d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-15 Thread Peter Volkov
В Сбт, 14/06/2008 в 19:28 +0200, Luca Barbato пишет: > I don't see disadvantages, all I wanted is a simple way to archive this: > [# emaint -r ffmpeg ... # emerge ffmpeg -L ... egen ... skipped most of stuff] Your example shows that .live ebuilds "fix" different issue. What you are suggesting are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
> Using live templates is something more ^^; For now it looks to me like it is only more work. Could you please clarify what new functionality they provide? -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 22:18, Luca Barbato wrote: mainline glibc usually requires you to fix it or the rest of the world... What? I experienced that the hard way -_- (btw they are single packages, emerge =python- works as should) So what was your proposal all abo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On 14 Jun 2008, at 22:18, Luca Barbato wrote: Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 20:02, Luca Barbato wrote: Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x rel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 20:02, Luca Barbato wrote: Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So: No that enfor

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Bernd Steinhauser wrote: Wow, impressive. Actually, you can't be serious... I am. GLEP 54 for quite some time now and it works very well. adds nothing to - and sets usage as is. I just don't see any benefit from your proposal, on the contrary there are issues. No. And that includes

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
> > emerge -C @kde-svn > > > > emerge @kde-svn > > > > that should suffice. > > I don't see that working for something like, say, python or glibc. No need, emerge @kde-svn will re-merge all packages in the set by default. So unmerging isn't needed and it just works. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Joe Peterson
Ryan Hill wrote: > (...I would change the suffix to -live, just because i > hate the term "SCM" :P) ++ on using "live" and not the "scm" acronym (no matter which idea is selected), especially since there are various different acronyms for config mgmt (scm, cm...), and scm's meaning is less obvious

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Luca Barbato schrieb: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So: No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one more reason to do. Keep in mind that -, -scm ebuild or .live templates a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On 14 Jun 2008, at 20:02, Luca Barbato wrote: Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So: No that enforce people update the deps

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So: No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one more reason to do. Keep

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So: No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one more reason to do. Keep in mind that -, -scm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Bernd Steinhauser wrote: With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So: No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one more reason to do. Keep in mind that -, -scm ebuild or .live templates aren't for public consum

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ryan Hill wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:55:27 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: So every user will have a different _preN version which would vary depending on how often they rebuild the package and that has absolutely no correlation with the revision number of the

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:34:21 +0200 Bernd Steinhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan Hill schrieb: > No, the idea behind ESCM_LOGDIR was different. > If you just want the revision of the current installed thing, you can > grep through the environment. > > ESCM_LOGDIR mainly aimed to provide a

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:55:27 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: > > So every user will have a different _preN version which would vary > > depending on how often they rebuild the package and that has > > absolutely no correlation with the revision number of the upstre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Ryan Hill schrieb: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:53:51 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:19:32 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm confused. If I have a gcc-4.4.0.live ebuild which checks out rev. 136737, after the merge do I h

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Luca Barbato schrieb: Bernd Steinhauser wrote: In the -scm approach this means: trunk = -scm 4.1 branch = -4.1-scm so you'll be oblivious of changes needed inside the ebuild and you won't know what you merged last time you issued an emerge =foo-scm (that by itself it is a problem, since it i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On 14 Jun 2008, at 18:23, Luca Barbato wrote: Fernando J. Pereda wrote: nope it would resolve as foo_pre1 -> meaningless. So your proposal is unable to handle that case, right? You are forced to put a version, that's all. Which doesn't always make sense so we are back to 9 version

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: nope it would resolve as foo_pre1 -> meaningless. So your proposal is unable to handle that case, right? You are forced to put a version, that's all. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@lis

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On 14 Jun 2008, at 18:03, Luca Barbato wrote: trunk = .live nope it would resolve as foo_pre1 -> meaningless. So your proposal is unable to handle that case, right? - ferdy -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Bernd Steinhauser wrote: MPlayer has a psychological issue with 1.0 versioning, still 1.0.live correctly isn't higher than 1.0 No, it is not. For mplayer it is correct. I'm MPlayer upstream as well. I do know. In the -scm approach this means: trunk = -scm 4.1 branch = -4.1-scm so you'll be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ryan Hill wrote: So every user will have a different _preN version which would vary depending on how often they rebuild the package and that has absolutely no correlation with the revision number of the upstream codebase. I'm sorry, but that's unacceptable. :/ You'd like to have the cflags and

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Duncan
Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:04:26 -0600: >> > Having a method that >> > lets the user choose that the PM should check the scm tree and update >> > the package if there's a new revision would be even better. >> >> I think that ca

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:32:22 + Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, here's a silly idea - > > tag the ebuilds with metadata. We already have RESTRICT, why not add > a "LIVE" variable. The package manager can then treat all ebuilds > with that tag differently. Scripts can find them

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:45:08 -0600 Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious, were you happy with the previous GLEP54 draft or were > there still issues that had to be addressed? As far as I'm concerned > it's fine. (though I would change the suffix to -live, just because i > hate the t

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:01:15 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:27:22 +0200 > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Many of them applies as well to the alternative proposal, I wonder > > how you could say we, council, had to vote the other proposal give

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:53:51 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:19:32 +0200 > > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I'm confused. If I have a gcc-4.4.0.live ebuild which checks out > >>> rev. 136737, after the merge do I hav

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Bernd Steinhauser
Luca Barbato schrieb: Santiago M. Mola wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: I'm guessing the dev would need to change 0.26.live to 0.26.1.live when 0.26 was released. I already need to do this with my live ebuilds. Of course, with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:29:00 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Which of the issues I listed needs to be addressed for the scm > > proposal? > > At least the upstream server load. -scm doesn't attempt to use upstream to obtain any information. Upstream is o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:25:53 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > * What generation looks like. > > Mostly implementation detail? Somebody seems to have ideas there and > I like to heard ideas from others as well. It's not a detail. It's extremely important,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Which of the issues I listed needs to be addressed for the scm proposal? At least the upstream server load. Ok, here's the best help I can give you: Your proposal can't work. You can't get correct ordering reusing existing components. You can't get sane behaviour using

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * What generation looks like. Mostly implementation detail? Somebody seems to have ideas there and I like to heard ideas from others as well. * How to select which ebuilds to trigger generation for. I'm fond of sets and I'd extend maint to be feeded to sets other th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:15:45 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:27:22 +0200 > > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Many of them applies as well to the alternative proposal, I wonder > >> how you could say we, council, had to v

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:27:22 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Many of them applies as well to the alternative proposal, I wonder how you could say we, council, had to vote the other proposal given such (and other) issues were open. No they don't. False.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:27:22 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many of them applies as well to the alternative proposal, I wonder > how you could say we, council, had to vote the other proposal given > such (and other) issues were open. No they don't. The alternative proposal is deli

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Santiago M. Mola wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ryan Hill wrote: I'm guessing the dev would need to change 0.26.live to 0.26.1.live when 0.26 was released. I already need to do this with my live ebuilds. Of course, with some projects you never

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: * What generation looks like. * How to select which ebuilds to trigger generation for. * When specifically to trigger generation. * Whether generation failure is possible, and what happens if it is. * What to do when generated information is required but not available. * Th

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
"Santiago M. Mola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * media-sound/amarok: live version is 1.4.. Next version is 2.0, > but that's a different branch so I'd expect 2.0.live to give me the > latest 2.0 version available, not 1.4's. 1.4. has been switched from because of the 2.0/1.4 branch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: >> >> I'm guessing the dev would need to change 0.26.live to 0.26.1.live when >> 0.26 was released. I already need to do this with my live ebuilds. Of >> course, with some projects you never know if the n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:45:31 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And none of those are even close to a reasonable, implementable > > idea. > > They are implementable. They're really not. You haven't even begun to discuss: * What generation looks like. * How to select which ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:04:45 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It will be available once you trigger again the generation or if you put a normal ebuild with such name. And what triggers said generation? I already replied in this thread, I guess the informatio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:04:45 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It will be available once you trigger again the generation or if > >> you put a normal ebuild with such name. > > > > And what triggers said generation? > > I already replied in this thread, I guess the information is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:53:51 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:19:32 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm confused. If I have a gcc-4.4.0.live ebuild which checks out rev. 136737, after the merge do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:53:51 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:19:32 +0200 > > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I'm confused. If I have a gcc-4.4.0.live ebuild which checks out > >>> rev. 136737, after the merge do I have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:19:32 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm confused. If I have a gcc-4.4.0.live ebuild which checks out rev. 136737, after the merge do I have gcc-4.4.0_pre136737 or gcc-4.4.0_pre1 (and gcc-4.4.0_pre2 next time I merge it, etc) installe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:19:32 +0200 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm confused. If I have a gcc-4.4.0.live ebuild which checks out > > rev. 136737, after the merge do I have gcc-4.4.0_pre136737 > > or gcc-4.4.0_pre1 (and gcc-4.4.0_pre2 next time I merge it, etc) > > installed? > > it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-14 Thread Luca Barbato
Ryan Hill wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:35:52 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ignoring possible semantic issues for the moment, I'd be against this simply because it would require the PM to be aware of the current revision of the repository and to transform it into a integer value

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-13 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:35:52 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ignoring possible semantic issues for the moment, I'd be against this > simply because it would require the PM to be aware of the current > revision of the repository and to transform it into a integer value > (trivial fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-13 Thread Luca Barbato
Tiziano Müller wrote: @lu_zero: I don't think we can get away without having the pm know what a live-ebuild exactly is and when to re-install it. a live ebuild is a template, every time it has to be evaluated it acts as a normal ebuild with the version mentioned and _preN+1 postponed, preN is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:14:49 +0200 Tiziano Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How does your proposal handle this? > > s/_pre/_p ? Collides with existing use of _p. It means you can't use _p for manual snapshots if there's also a live ebuild, since foo-1.2_p3 (from a live ebuild) would incorrec

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-13 Thread Tiziano Müller
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:43:39 +0200 > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:40:28 +0200 >> > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> * ordering for _pre is wrong. >> >> hm? >> > >> > foo-0.26-live would become

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-13 Thread Tiziano Müller
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:43:39 +0200 > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:40:28 +0200 >> > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> * ordering for _pre is wrong. >> >> hm? >> > >> > foo-0.26-live would become

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-10 Thread Duncan
"=?UTF-8?Q?Piotr_Jaroszy=C5=84ski?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:13:20 +0200: > What's the point of sourcing an ebuild that cannot be used anyway? As currently seen in portage at least... a PM can be aware of and source an EAPI it can't

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-10 Thread Tiziano Müller
Peter Weller wrote: > On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 13:41 +0100, Alex Howells wrote: > [snip] >> I often don't agree with him, but can't help but respect the work he >> does. >> >> I would like to see Council move towards a more compressed meeting >> format -- people presenting arguments need to work out

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-09 Thread Tiziano Müller
Luca Barbato wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> I'm afraid you are mixing up emails from this thread. I got >>> complaints about how wrongly the PMS is written, e.g. academic paper >>> markup vs plain text, natural language used to specify syntax while a >>> grammar notation like EBNF would be be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:45:37 +0200 Tiziano Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And why don't we change the versioning of the EAPI to a "X.Y" scheme > and demand that changes in the minor version must not break sourcing > of the ebuild with older package managers and that major versions do. > Major

[gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees

2008-06-09 Thread Tiziano Müller
Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote: > Hello, > > looks like every nominee wants the council to be more technical so I > have a few technical questions for you: > > 1. GLEP54 Doit! > 2. GLEP55 Good idea. But the GLEP still contains too many "may"'s and "should"'s. Example: "[...] but note that one should n