On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:43 +0100 Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My current idea is to draw up a formal specification of what ebuilds > are allowed to do, and what to assume about the environment in which > they run, as well as defining the formats of everything under > profiles/, metadata.xml files, and other auxiliary information in the > tree. I would envision the first version of this document to more or > less codify existing practise, perhaps excluding some dubious tricks > that are known to break in some cases. Generally, it should be > possible to make the tree conform to the first version of the > specification by changes no more significant than currently have QA > bugs filed for them. Actually for the last two weeks or so (or whenever that pkgmanager compat/transition glep was brought up) I was considering creating a new "espec" project for that. This is beyond the scope of a single document IMO and a separate project for it would help a bit to keep it independent from existing implementations. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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