On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:22:23 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >> In the discussions that led to inclusion of the feature in EAPI 4,
> >> it was implicit that it would be possible to override the default.
> >> This can only work if "$@" goes after all default options.
> 
> > But that wasn't got approved by the Council...
> 
> Sure it was. Read the full thread that belongs to the message quoted
> earlier: You had announced the EAPI 3 (what later became 4) branch
> with the --d-d-t feature, asking council members for comments. Your
> message mentioning econf --enable-dependency-tracking was a reply to
> leio's question about the feature.
> 
> How else should one understand this, if not as a clarification that
> overriding the default should be possible?

What ultimately got approved by the Council, and what implementers
should be following, is the wording which ended up in PMS.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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