Re: [gentoo-dev] Yet another proposal for ebuild extensions

2009-05-17 Thread Ben de Groot
Ravi Pinjala wrote: > Instead of changing rules for existing ebuilds, then, why not formalize > some guidelines for non-ebuild-compatible packages in the tree, separate > from EAPIs? Allowing new package formats is the next logical > generalization after considering new and incompatible ebuild for

[gentoo-dev] Yet another proposal for ebuild extensions

2009-05-16 Thread Ravi Pinjala
There's been a lot of noise on this list the past few days about GLEP 55, but precious few solutions actually proposed. Changing the file extension would certainly be useful for some changes, but the success of EAPIs >0 which are already in the tree demonstrates that for many changes, altering the