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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