Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:48:27 +0100 > Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> ...and then we have to do the whole thing again every time something >>> new crops up. >> Please give an example because I fail to see how. > > New version suffix rules. New bash versions. New package naming rules. > Partially composable EAPIs. Tree-provided internals. Consistent variable > namespacing. Metadata via function calls. > >>> EAPI was supposed to solve this, and profile eapi and >>> GLEP 55 finish the job. Repeatedly going back and saying "oh, we >>> have to wait another year or more again" is unacceptable. >> Had we found a compromise at the beginning of glep55, that extra year >> would be over by now... > > And we'd be starting on the next batch of "oh, we need to wait another > year". Had GLEP 55's necessity been accepted a year ago, we'd have a > whole bunch of requested features implemented by now. >
I doubt Portage would have gained new features any faster. Regards, Petteri
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