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On 21:04 Sun 25 Jan , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:25:44 -0100 |
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> "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I talked to Zac <zmedico> earlier in #gentoo-portage about adding an |
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> > entry to package.mask for KDE-4.2.0 using slot deps. Thomas |
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> > <tanderson> and Patrick <bonsaikitten> raised the concern we might |
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> > need profile eapis and that PMS nailed p.mask to EAPI-0. |
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> > Zac confirmed that the first stable version to support slot deps in p. |
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> > mask was 2.1.3.16, that it was stabled in bug 197165 - 14 months ago |
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> > - - and that the first stages to include it were the 2008.0 stages. |
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> > Thus, can we finally give the ok to use slot deps in package.mask? Can |
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> > we also give the ok to use it everywhere in all 2008.0 and later |
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> > profiles/ ? |
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> |
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> The Council approved profile eapi files for use a while ago (can't |
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> remember when -- http://council.gentoo.org/ isn't being updated), and |
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Last month's meeting |
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> they discussed timeframes for using newer EAPIs then too. Did you see |
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> that discussion? |
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"An EAPI=0 profile always needs to exist so that users with old portage |
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can upgrade. Otherwise they will sync and have no valid profile |
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available so cannot emerge a new version of portage. |
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"Decision: Approved. Existing stable profiles must use EAPI=0. New or dev |
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profiles can use higher EAPIs. |
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"Ref: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_930f58fcebcbbcbe523c001f2c825179.xml" |
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I haven't finished & posted last month's summary |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/20081211-summary.txt> yet because of a |
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long holiday vacation and lots of work deadlines after returning. I'll |
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get all that stuff updated this week. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |