Re: [gentoo-dev] slot deps in package.mask and profiles

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 21:04 Sun 25 Jan     , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:25:44 -0100
> "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o> wrote:
> > I talked to Zac <zmedico> earlier in #gentoo-portage about adding an
> > entry to package.mask for KDE-4.2.0 using slot deps. Thomas
> > <tanderson> and Patrick <bonsaikitten> raised the concern we might
> > need profile eapis and that PMS nailed p.mask to EAPI-0.
> > Zac confirmed that the first stable version to support slot deps in p.
> > mask was 2.1.3.16, that it was stabled in bug 197165 - 14 months ago
> > - - and that the first stages to include it were the 2008.0 stages.
> > Thus, can we finally give the ok to use slot deps in package.mask? Can
> > we also give the ok to use it everywhere in all 2008.0 and later
> > profiles/ ?
>
> The Council approved profile eapi files for use a while ago (can't
> remember when -- http://council.gentoo.org/ isn't being updated), and

Last month's meeting

> they discussed timeframes for using newer EAPIs then too. Did you see
> that discussion?

"An EAPI=0 profile always needs to exist so that users with old portage 
can upgrade. Otherwise they will sync and have no valid profile 
available so cannot emerge a new version of portage.

"Decision: Approved. Existing stable profiles must use EAPI=0. New or dev 
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
profiles can use higher EAPIs.

"Ref: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_930f58fcebcbbcbe523c001f2c825179.xml"


I haven't finished & posted last month's summary 
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/20081211-summary.txt> yet because of a 
long holiday vacation and lots of work deadlines after returning. I'll 
get all that stuff updated this week.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com