2009/2/24 Ferris McCormick <fmc...@gentoo.org> > On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 22:19 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:15:25 -0600 > > Ryan Hill <dirtye...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > Can we ban eclasses from setting EAPI? Is there any case where it > > > would be sane? > > > > It's already banned from a QA perspective, but from a package manager > > perspective people have done it in the past and possibly still do do > > it, and the spec doesn't forbid it. > > > > For what it's worth, no eclass in the gentoo-x86/eclass tree sets EAPI. > I don't know about anyplace else. > > Regards, > Ferris > -- > Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmc...@gentoo.org> > Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) > lucene-contrib eclass in java-experimental [1] sets EAPI to 1 to use slot deps. And I think that's a valid usage.
1: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/browser/java-experimental/eclass/lucene-contrib.eclass
