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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting EAPI 5 *use.stable.mask to work in gx86?
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:35:54
Message-Id: 50C6D41B.703@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Getting EAPI 5 *use.stable.mask to work in gx86? by "Michał Górny"
1 On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > 1) duplicate most of the major profiles. Make an EAPI 5-enabled wrapper
3 > profiles which will provide the *use.stable.mask files. Require users
4 > to migrate to those profiles after getting an EAPI 5 capable package
5 > manager (how?). Possibly mask the relevant flags completely in other
6 > profiles.
7
8 I think this is the obvious solution. You can make users migrate by
9 adding "deprecated" files to the old profiles.
10 --
11 Thanks,
12 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting EAPI 5 *use.stable.mask to work in gx86? "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>