On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:46:35 -0800 Josh Saddler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:17:12 +0100 > > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Putting a tag in the file name or at the to of the file as comment > >> (maybe using a #! line) is the same ... > > > * It's a format restriction. Some formats have to start with > > something that's not #!. > > Who cares? Gentoo uses the ebuild/bash-with-shebang format. If you're > trying to shove in something outside of that, that would be a package > manager-specific format. Like XML-stuff (that can't include the > shebang or EAPI="foo" at the top) specifically for, say, Paludis.
And that's the kind of thinking that landed Gentoo in the "unable to add new features" camp for several years. > If it's package manager-specific, then it doesn't belong in the main > tree, as you stated. Would that include trying to push in the proposed > suffix changes? Uh, no. It's a GLEP so that everyone can do it. > If they have uses outside of it, then consider supporting it *only > in that package manager*, rather than trying to force it on what is > largely an unreceptive Gentoo group. Paludis has it already for other trees. We're trying to get Gentoo, and all ebuild-using package managers, to start using it because it's a good solution and solves several problems that Gentoo has currently. > Near as I can tell, it's only the Paludis folks that are interested > in pushing this GLEP through. Have you tried asking the Portage developer? -- Ciaran McCreesh
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