On Tuesday 18 December 2007 01:36:51 Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > Why can't it be in the file but readable without sourcing? For instance, > it could be mandatory that EAPI=X, if present, must be the first > non-blank and non-comment line of the ebuild (and it would then be > checked after sourcing, if the ebuild is sourced, to bug on cases where > it's redefined or unset afterwards).
This would also mean we had to wait for ages before taking advantage of it because old versions of portage still would try to source the ebuild when the EAPI is unknown. The nice thing about .ebuild-EAPI is that old versions of Portage will ignore it. -- Bo Andresen
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