[gentoo-dev] Is it time for bash-3?

[Donnie Berkholz]

Someone gave me a patch to mesa that uses bash-3 features, and it made
me wonder how people feel about this. Adding individual deps to each
ebuild is weird; I'd prefer to do this at the profile level, in
profiles/base/packages. It already contains bash, so we'd just be
enforcing a minimal version. baselayout has required bash-3 for nearly 2
years, so pretty much everybody ought to have it. At that point, we
should be able to use bash-3 syntax where it's useful in pretty much
anything besides the bash ebuild itself, and perhaps its deps.

In a nutshell: Let's change profiles/base/packages from
"*app-shells/bash" to "*>=app-shells/bash-3".

Thanks,
Donnie