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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Collecting items for EAPI 6
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:31:17
Message-Id: 1364553067.2169.0.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Collecting items for EAPI 6 by "Michał Górny"
1 El jue, 28-03-2013 a las 19:15 +0100, Michał Górny escribió:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > As discussed with ulm, I'd like to start a thread for collecting
5 > initial items for EAPI 6. Preferably items which are either almost
6 > ready or are easy to implement and are non-controversial. In other
7 > words, thing which are practically ready to get on the actual list.
8 >
9 > As usual, each item should have a corresponding 'Future EAPI' bug which
10 > blocks the tracker [1].
11 >
12 > [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=future-eapi
13 >
14 >
15 > My propositions:
16 >
17 > a) for improving self-consistency of EAPI (high priority):
18 >
19 > - #463586: move get_libdir to EAPI (since it is used in econf).
20 >
21 > - #459692: split the doc-installation part of default_src_install
22 > (e.g. as einstalldocs).
23 >
24 > - #451938: provide a 'die' variant respecting 'nonfatal' (to implement
25 > custom helpers respecting 'nonfatal').
26 >
27 >
28 > b) for improving ebuild & eclass development:
29 >
30 > - #449862: tidy up IUSE checking.
31 >
32 > - #449806: support using DOCS to append to the standard document list.
33 >
34 > - #431340: allow bash-4.2 (may require additional policy restrictions).
35 >
36 > - #273101: explicit variable for no. of parallel jobs (rather than
37 > hacking MAKEOPTS).
38 >
39
40 I would also add, if possible:
41 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449862 -> Suggest to specify a
42 way to query for values in IUSE