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On 11/28/2010 11:56 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: |
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>> It seems like the problem here is that we don't have separate profiles |
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>> for stable and unstable keywords. The obvious solution would be to have |
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>> separate profiles, mask the flags in the stable profiles, and unmask the |
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>> flags in the unstable profiles. That way, repoman would continue to |
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>> protect stable profile users from unsatisfiable dependencies, without |
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>> unnecessarily masking those choices from unstable profile users. |
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> I would prefer small number of additional files instead of huge proliferation of profiles. |
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> You also suggested using EAPI="4"-specific profiles instead of EAPI-versioned files, so eventually |
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> we might have about 4 times more profiles :) . |
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There's no requirement to keep old profiles around indefinitely. Old |
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profiles will eventually go away once the new ones are the recommended |
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option. As for this particular case I haven't really taken a close |
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enough opinion to say if new profiles make the best sense or not. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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