Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh <at> googlemail.com> writes: > > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:50:26 +0000 (UTC) > Mark Bateman <couldbe <at> soon.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:41:30 +0200 > > > Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus <at> gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > Also we should allow the stuff as directory thingus (portage > > > > already handles it right). > > > > > > That's a seperate thing that needs EAPI control. You'll need to > > > propose it for EAPI 4 if you want that. > > > > Except this "stuff as directory" was pre-EAPI and thus the PMS should > > have captured that as EAPI-1 > > Ergo PMS is wrong and needs to be updated to refect reality > > PMS accurately reflects the Portage documentation and the commit > message that introduced the feature -- it's purely for use > in /etc/portage/, which is beyond the scope of PMS. > > It is not the business of PMS to enforce undocumented features that > Portage supports only by accident and that aren't used in the tree. >
PMS doesn't depict just what portage should do, just what ebuild's in the main tree are to expect. This is a good feature (intentional or not) of portage and is already finding usage in overlays. Sure for such a feature to make it into the main tree EAPI it, but as it stands its fine
