On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:51:03 +0800 Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's the problem about the agreement between PM and ebuild. > > If this is agreed upon > >>>>> import vim-spell using language="en" > You should be able to get it. > > If not, then blame the ebuild writer. There is no problem with the > agreement.
Uh... It's not agreed upon currently. It may be agreed upon in the future, but that's no good for current package managers. Current package managers have to be able to deal with future agreements, without limiting those future agreements to not being able to make changes like the above example. > > Bear in mind that > > package managers can only use what's been agreed upon at the time > > they were released, not what might be agreed upon later -- and yet > > they need to be able to extract the EAPI from anything agreed upon > > later. > > Exactly my point. So we all agree that suffixes are the solution, since they solve this problem and in-ebuild-content restrictions don't. Good. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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