262230 – Defining EAPI before it's usage is discussed

Bug 262230 - Defining EAPI before it's usage is discussed

Summary: Defining EAPI before it's usage is discussed

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Documentation
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Devmanual (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team

URL:	http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-wr...
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Reported:	2009-03-12 03:01 UTC by Tamas Szabo
Modified:	2015-07-02 16:40 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Tamas Szabo 2009-03-12 03:01:49 UTC

The EAPI section : "EAPI Usage and Description" (http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/eapi/index.html) talks about usage of EAPI 1 and 2, but it doesnt' say what EAPI is in the first place.
After googling around I found the answer in some mail threads, but it wasn't an easy find.

It might be worthwhile adding a short description of what EAPI is or provide a link to some other resource that describes it (I couldn't find such a page).

Thanks,

Tamas

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2015-07-02 16:40:07 UTC

> EAPI is a version defined in ebuilds and other package manager related files which inform the package manager about the file syntax and content. It is, in effect, the version of the package manager specification (PMS) that the file adheres to.