2009/5/27 Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org>: > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:57:25 Joe Peterson wrote: > >> > Gentoo should not repeat the VHS vs Betamax war. For those who do not >> > remember, VHS was the better marketed but inferior technical solution >> > that won the standards war for domestic Video recorders. >> > >> :) Yep. And bad design decisions can haunt is for a long time. > > Actually, once we add the current-glep55 changes we have no way of sanely > undoing them if we should realize that they don't work out for us ... > > ... unless we do horrible things like forbidding it, which would cause the > same errors we are trying to hide now. > > So unless we have a plan for mid-term future changes I don't see why we would > want the current GLEP55 - it's a one-way change in the current state.
How is it one-way exactly? You can do pretty much anything you want in a new EAPI (that's the point). >> My preference is the one-time .ebuild->.eb change, and putting the EAPI on >> the first line, like a #!shebang. Very easy to extract, and good design. > > My preference is freezing the rsync tree, storing all referenced distfiles on > at least one mirror, then change the rsync path. > That way all "old" users get the last sane upgrade position (...) And bugs and security vulnerabilities too. Or do you propose maintaining multiple trees at the same time? I think one of the main points of EAPI was to avoid doing exactly that. -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński
