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Bug 217495 - Reserved EAPIs for package managers should be generic and need to be bound to a natural or legal entity if possible
Summary: Reserved EAPIs for package managers should be generic and need to be bound to...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification: Unclassified
Component: PMS/EAPI (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Package Manager Specification
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Reported: 2008-04-13 09:12 UTC by Björn Michaelsen
Modified: 2008-04-13 15:51 UTC (History)
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Description Björn Michaelsen 2008-04-13 09:12:56 UTC
Instead of explicitly naming one package manager the spec should be generic when reserving EAPI namespace.
Also reserved namespace only makes sense when it is bound to a natural or legal person. Binding "paludis-" EAPIs to the "paludis package manager" does not make sense if there is no definition of what or who that is, for example.
Reservations not bound to a natural or legal person should be lowered to recommendations. 
• EAPIs whose value starts with the all lowercase name of an packagemanager (e.g. "paludis", "portage", "pkgcore") followed by a "-" should only be introduced by the development team of that package manager.
• EAPIs whose value starts with the string kdebuild- should only be introduced by the Gentoo KDE project.

PMS should not be abused in case of forks etc.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2008-04-13 15:51:33 UTC
Now you're being silly. The wording is fine and perfectly clear as it is.