On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:37:11PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Fernando J Pereda wrote: > > >> > It seems to me that this will inconvenience the users, in order to > >> > solve a technical problem of the package manager. > >> > >> Absolutely, +1. This does indeed sound like a technical issue; how > >> would requiring a dev to manually mirror the EAPI in the filename > >> extension provide any benefit over caching it behind the scenes (using > >> the Manifest file or similar mechanism)? > > > You are yet to show what kind of inconvenience to the users this > > proposal will cause. > > One example was mentioned in this thread before: You cannot use > "find -name '*.ebuild'" anymore.
Yeah, and you cannot use 'give-me-my-ebuilds' to list them all... people will have to improve their tools to work with EAPI-suffixed ebuilds. > And as we have now learned that EAPI strings are not limited to digits > (see ciaranm's message) and may even contain blanks (see grobian's > message), we would have ebuilds with very strange filenames. What's the problem with this? - ferdy -- Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín 20BB BDC3 761A 4781 E6ED ED0B 0A48 5B0C 60BD 28D4
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