Re: [gentoo-dev] One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for September

[Robert Buchholz]

On Thursday 11 September 2008, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:43:54 -0700
>
> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
> > [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/eapi/eapi-2-draft.html
>
> By table 6.11, are you implying that you consider the new pkg_ phase
> order to be part of EAPI 2?
>
> Really, Portage needs to revert the order and go back to the way it
> used to be for all EAPIs. The change breaks lots of existing ebuilds
> (you claim you've probably fixed everything in ::gentoo, but you
> don't know that and you've definitely not fixed overlays), including
> ebuilds using a common documented technique recommended by the
> devmanual.
>
> If you want the new pkg_* ordering to go through at all, it really
> needs a lengthy discussion on its own and it mustn't apply to any
> action that involves any existing EAPI.
>
> I'd like the Council to say that for anything involving EAPIs 0, 1 or
> 2 we stick to the pkg_* phase ordering we've used years.

What is the change of order you witnessed in table 6.11 of the draft? 
Comparing that to the PMS on [3], the order looks identical to me 
(except for the two new phases). Am I missing something?


Robert

[3] http://dev.gentoo.org/~coldwind/pms.pdf Section 10.2