2009-05-17 18:37:32 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a):
> On Sun, 17 May 2009 18:20:21 +0200
> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would like to suggest to include possibility of using of features of
> > bash-4.0 (and older versions) in local scope of EAPI="3" ebuilds.
> > 
> > I know that it's slightly late, but this change is very easy to
> > implement (adjusting RDEPEND of new versions of package managers and
> > updating PMS).
> 
> No good, for two reasons.
> 
> First, this is a global scope change

Why do you think that it is a global scope change?

> and we can't make global scope
> changes to EAPIs using current mechanisms. EAPIs have to carry on using
> bash 3 until the EAPI mechanism is changed.

IMHO ebuilds are allowed to set DEPEND=">=app-shells/bash-4.0" and use
bash-4.0 features anyway, but it would be easier to just set appropriate EAPI
in ebuilds.

> Second, by order of the Council, EAPI 3's feature list was locked
> several weeks ago. If we ignore that for one thing, it just means
> everyone else who had features that came along too late will start
> demanding we reconsider those too...

IMHO addition of this feature would be acceptable.

-- 
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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