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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Gentoo Council <council@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4"
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:07:36
Message-Id: 4CF2D27F.4020007@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4" by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
1 On 11/28/2010 01:56 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
2 > 2010-11-28 21:30:47 Zac Medico napisaƂ(a):
3 >> It seems like the problem here is that we don't have separate profiles
4 >> for stable and unstable keywords. The obvious solution would be to have
5 >> separate profiles, mask the flags in the stable profiles, and unmask the
6 >> flags in the unstable profiles. That way, repoman would continue to
7 >> protect stable profile users from unsatisfiable dependencies, without
8 >> unnecessarily masking those choices from unstable profile users.
9 >
10 > I would prefer small number of additional files instead of huge proliferation of profiles.
11 > You also suggested using EAPI="4"-specific profiles instead of EAPI-versioned files, so eventually
12 > we might have about 4 times more profiles :) .
13
14 It would only be 2 times in profiles.desc, since my suggestion regarding
15 the EAPI 4 profiles was to deprecate the older profiles and drop them
16 from profiles.desc.
17 --
18 Thanks,
19 Zac