On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:27:56 +0200 Tiziano Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > No point. A 0 package manager still couldn't use a 0.1 ebuild. > > > That's true, it has at least to be aware the there's an EAPI. > But how does such a package manager handle .ebuild-0 files? Ignore > them? Failing because of unknown files in a package-dir? > Should we care about package managers not being aware of the > existence of EAPI's?
Package managers can't do *anything* with ebuilds with unsupported EAPIs anyway. Encouraging package managers to handle ebuilds with unsupported EAPIs in any way just massively limits what can be done in future EAPIs. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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