Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] portage-2.1.6 release plans
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:46:03
Message-Id: 491527AC.6030702@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] portage-2.1.6 release plans by Marius Mauch
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4 Marius Mauch wrote:
5 > On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:38:48 -0800
6 > Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
7 >
8 >> Since portage-2.2 isn't quite ready yet due to ongoing work in
9 >> package sets and preserve-libs, and I don't want ongoing work to
10 >> hold back other features that are stable, I'm planning to split a
11 >> 2.1.6 branch from trunk. This branch will have package sets and
12 >> preserve-libs support disabled.
13 >
14 > Disabled as in FEATURES="-preserve-libs" and an almost empty
15 > sets.conf, or disabled as in "remove all traces from the code"?
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17 I think the relevant APIs should be made private so that people
18 won't write code that relies on them, and things like sets.conf and
19 /var/lib/portage/world_sets should be completely disabled so that
20 people won't rely on them either.
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23 Thanks,
24 Zac
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