Bug 217495

Summary:	Reserved EAPIs for package managers should be generic and need to be bound to a natural or legal entity if possible
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Björn Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen>
Component:	PMS/EAPI	Assignee:	Package Manager Specification <pms>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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

Steps to Reproduce:

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.