On 03/13/12 01:12, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:05:46 +0100 > Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> See above, even if we should ever move away from bash, GLEP 55 is >> still not needed. > > ...but we might as well go with GLEP 55 anyway, since GLEP 55 > definitely works, whereas other solutions might work so long as we > don't do something unexpected. > > This whole thing is just an exercise in trying to find excuses not to > use GLEP 55. >
That kind of circular reasoning makes my head hurt. We discussed that ... topic ... to death about three times over the last 2 years, and the same arguments still apply. Put an EAPI-marker in a well-defined position near the top of the ebuild, problem solved. If it needs more it's not an ebuild anymore and we should consider fixing all the other annoying glitches we have at the same time, which causes a backwards-incompatible tree format change, which means we need to plan the whole thing properly. Trying to nail on GLEP55 is just trying to fix issues arising from not fixing issues properly, so *if* we want to change things for no apparent reason we should change them properly.
