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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