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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Re: EAPI 5
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:40:22
Message-Id: 201205010040.32421.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] Re: EAPI 5 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Am Dienstag 01 Mai 2012, 00:15:12 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh:
2 > On Tue, 1 May 2012 00:14:15 +0200
3 >
4 > "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
5 > > * package.use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.force support, as
6 > > discussed on gentoo-dev (there and on IRC feedback was pretty much
7 > > positive)
8 > >
9 > > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_6c492ae43ad7c70cef6aa8ac34911ad
10 > > f.xml
11 >
12 > I'm against this one in a "quick" EAPI, unless you can get a reference
13 > implementation and extensive testing on possible use scenarios done in
14 > time. I strongly suspect this will end up having the problems that
15 > REQUIRED_USE had when it was shoved in at the last minute without
16 > anyone having properly tried it out...
17
18 I cannot say much myself about the complexity of the reference implementation,
19 however the concept itself is imho pretty straightforward and (in particular)
20 not intrusive.
21
22 The main problem that I see with REQUIRED_USE is that it generates
23 restrictions that cannot be resolved automatically. Not sure how anything like
24 that can happen here, where we do not offer any choices but deliberately only
25 limit them.
26
27 --
28
29 Andreas K. Huettel
30 Gentoo Linux developer
31 dilfridge@g.o
32 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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