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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Re: EAPI 5
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 20:57:18
Message-Id: 4FB0201F.9050901@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-pms] Re: EAPI 5 by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On 04/30/2012 03:14 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 > Am Freitag 27 April 2012, 22:12:27 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh:
3 >> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:58:24 +0200
4 >>
5 >> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
6 >>> Of course, if we take the 'quick EAPI 5 route', it won't include
7 >>> anything useful. In the meantime, do we have a complete list of
8 >>> candidates for EAPI 5?
9 >>
10 >> Let's continue this on the PMS list.
11 >>
12 > [...]
13 >
14 > Pretty please,
15 >
16 > * package.use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.force support, as discussed
17 > on gentoo-dev (there and on IRC feedback was pretty much positive)
18 >
19 > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_6c492ae43ad7c70cef6aa8ac34911adf.xml
20
21 We'd probably also want to add a use.stable file, in order to control
22 default USE settings for stable users. This could come in handy for
23 creating default PYTHON_TARGETS settings that correspond to the users's
24 latest visible slots of python, as discussed here:
25
26 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415575#c5
27 --
28 Thanks,
29 Zac