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diff --git a/appendices.tex b/appendices.tex index d87d1be..ed90225 100644 --- a/appendices.tex +++ b/appendices.tex @@ -67,16 +67,16 @@ In some exceptional cases, changes to the specification have been approved by th without introducing a new EAPI\@. This section lists such retroactive changes. \subsection{Bash version} -EAPIs \t{0}, \t{1} and \t{2} originally specified GNU Bash version 3.0. This was retroactively -updated to version 3.2 (see table~\ref{tab:bash-version}) in November 2009. +EAPIs 0, 1 and~2 originally specified GNU Bash version 3.0. This was retroactively updated to +version 3.2 (see table~\ref{tab:bash-version}) in November 2009. \subsection{Old-style virtuals} Historically, virtuals were special packages rather than regular ebuilds. An ebuild could specify in the \t{PROVIDE} metadata that it supplied certain virtuals, and the package manager had to bear this in mind when handling dependencies. -Old-style virtuals were supported by EAPIs \t{0}, \t{1}, \t{2}, \t{3} and \t{4}. They were phased -out via GLEP~37~\cite{Glep37} and finally removed in 2011. +Old-style virtuals were supported by EAPIs 0, 1, 2, 3 and~4. They were phased out via +GLEP~37~\cite{Glep37} and finally removed in 2011. \note{A `new-style virtual' is a normal package that installs no files and uses its dependency requirements to pull in a `provider'. This does not require any special handling from the package @@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ induce string prefix comparison instead of the normal version comparison logic. surprising results, e.\,g.\ \t{=dev-lang/perl-5.2*} matching \t{dev-lang/perl-5.22.0}. Moreover, implementation in package managers deviated from what was specified. -String prefix matching was effective in EAPIs \t{0}, \t{1}, \t{2}, \t{3}, \t{4} and \t{5}. It was -retroactively dropped in favour of the current behaviour in October 2015. +String prefix matching was effective in EAPIs 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and~5. It was retroactively dropped +in favour of the current behaviour in October 2015. \subsection{Empty dependency groups} The dependency specification format (see section~\ref{sec:dependency-spec}) originally permitted |