Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:48:27 +0100
> Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> ...and then we have to do the whole thing again every time something
>>> new crops up.
>> Please give an example because I fail to see how.
> 
> New version suffix rules. New bash versions. New package naming rules.
> Partially composable EAPIs. Tree-provided internals. Consistent variable
> namespacing. Metadata via function calls.
> 
>>> EAPI was supposed to solve this, and profile eapi and
>>> GLEP 55 finish the job. Repeatedly going back and saying "oh, we
>>> have to wait another year or more again" is unacceptable.
>> Had we found a compromise at the beginning of glep55, that extra year
>> would be over by now...
> 
> And we'd be starting on the next batch of "oh, we need to wait another
> year". Had GLEP 55's necessity been accepted a year ago, we'd have a
> whole bunch of requested features implemented by now.
> 

I doubt Portage would have gained new features any faster.

Regards,
Petteri

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