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On Saturday 10 of October 2009 22:50:37 Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Maybe a syntax extension for IUSE would be a little nicer. For example: |
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> IUSE="unstable? ( foo bar )" |
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No no no, the biggest reason for this is to not touch ebuild at all - it needs |
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to be fully ebuild independent. |
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It's like with recent KDE4 stabilization. Having ability to exclude certain |
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optional dependencies from stabilization *without* modifying ebuilds (remove |
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USE flag and its support from IUSE) is the motivation here. |
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For now - we just mask them in package.use.mask with appropriate version |
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specification (let's say <=kde-base/kdeutils-meta-4.3.10 cups) - but it's not |
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ideal as you may think. |
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It's no surprise, we don't manage ebuilds in *purely* individual manner - |
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instead we try to keep all ebuilds across all releases the same if possible |
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(eclass handles it properly) - it's over 250 of them after all and we maintain |
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now 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.9999 (stable branch - what makes next 4.3.x releases), |
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9999 (pure trunk) and trunk snapshots like 4.3.69. |
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regards |
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MM |
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