[gentoo-dev] Collecting items for EAPI 6

[Michał Górny]

Hello,

As discussed with ulm, I'd like to start a thread for collecting
initial items for EAPI 6. Preferably items which are either almost
ready or are easy to implement and are non-controversial. In other
words, thing which are practically ready to get on the actual list.

As usual, each item should have a corresponding 'Future EAPI' bug which
blocks the tracker [1].

[1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=future-eapi


My propositions:

a) for improving self-consistency of EAPI (high priority):

- #463586: move get_libdir to EAPI (since it is used in econf).

- #459692: split the doc-installation part of default_src_install
  (e.g. as einstalldocs).

- #451938: provide a 'die' variant respecting 'nonfatal' (to implement
  custom helpers respecting 'nonfatal').


b) for improving ebuild & eclass development:

- #449862: tidy up IUSE checking.

- #449806: support using DOCS to append to the standard document list.

- #431340: allow bash-4.2 (may require additional policy restrictions).

- #273101: explicit variable for no. of parallel jobs (rather than
  hacking MAKEOPTS).

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Best regards,
Michał Górny