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> On 31 Jul 2021, at 23:42, Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote: |
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> I can't find much documentation on the 'eapi' file found in many of the |
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> profile directories. Several of the ones in |
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> profiles/arch/{amd64,sparc,mips} all report '5', and this aligns with the |
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> mips 17.0 profile under default/linux. Since EAPI 5 is deprecated, should |
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> this file be edited to be at least EAPI 6 or 7, or is it a relic of the past |
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> and really just needs to be tossed out? |
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> If EAPI support is really needed in the profiles, it seems like there has to |
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> be a better mechanism to codify it in a more central location versus |
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> scattering ~390 of the things across the base profiles directory. |
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> Thoughts? |
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As far as I know, the only real documentation on this is in PMS [0]. Not much |
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changed in EAPIs 6, 7, or 8 for profiles and I think we're rather conservative |
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(a number of years) about increasing the baseline because it makes old |
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upgrades even more difficult. |
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I think there may be a guideline about that somewhere but I can't think where |
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it Is right now. There's a reference to it in the devmanual [1] when explaining |
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EAPI 8 - that page may have other useful information too. |
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TL;DR: We don't get much out of it and either the EAPIs are too new to use |
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in profiles or they didn't change anything relevant. |
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[0] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-450005.2.2 |
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[1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/eapi/#eapi-8-tree-layout |
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best, |
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sam |
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