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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:22:16
Message-Id: 20071.28643.758959.906951@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 >>>>> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, TomᨠChvátal wrote:
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3 > Start collecting ideas for EAPI5.
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5 I suggest that EAPI 5 should include the two features that have been
6 omitted from EAPI 4 [1,2].
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8 Apart from this, I think we should be more careful for the next EAPI,
9 in order to avoid such long delays as we had with EAPI 4. One possible
10 solution would be to only accept features where a preliminary
11 implementation in Portage is available.
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13 > I myself would like PATCHES array to be default in src_prepare phase
14 > and some solution for runtime optional deps, Instead of elog in
15 > postinst something like Recommended from rpm.
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17 Looks reasonable (if an implementation is ready). Although I don't
18 understand how it is related to rpm.
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20 Ulrich
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22 [1] <http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commit;h=9d2b8ee57bf3be941cfdfe13650952d91b9edfdc>
23 [2] <http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commit;h=409fccc10861c361f37a959195d7581a5c376dd9>

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