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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:23:46
Message-Id: 20080611092340.GD759@comet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 On 00:11 Wed 11 Jun , Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
2 > I would like the portage devs to comment upon which of the following features
3 > they think could easily be implemented before portage 2.2 goes stable.
4
5 These ones meet the criteria of "I know people are working around them
6 because they don't exist yet, and it's annoying and extra work":
7
8 > - Use dependencies, it's not clear to me whether we all agree entirely upon
9 > the syntax yet though (bugs #2272 and #174406)
10 > - Custom output names in SRC_URI, also called arrows (bug #177863)
11 > - Limit values in $USE (bug #176467)
12 > - GLEP 42 - news items
13 > - maint_*, it's not clear to me if this has been fleshed out in sufficient
14 > detail yet (bug #185567)
15 > - default_*, allows an ebuild to redefine phases to add more functionality and
16 > then call default_$phase. Currently the default phases are lost when
17 > redefining the phases.
18 > - default for src_install (bug #33544)
19 > - Ranged dependencies (bug #4315)
20
21 Thanks,
22 Donnie
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