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Dear Gentoo council, |
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I would like to bring up for your next meeting agenda a vote on the adoption |
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of the following feature in EAPI 5: "Support package.use.stable.mask and |
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package.use.stable.force files in profile dirs that restrict the use flag |
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combinations only for stable packages". |
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Why? This would allow switching off features that are know to be still |
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problematic, while keeping the ebuild unchanged. Also, it would allow |
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conditional dependencies on non-stable packages that automatically "go away on |
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stabilization" (e.g., cups systemd support). |
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* This has been discussed on the gentoo-dev mailing list, with an overall |
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positive response and some good ideas on the exact semantics, see thread [1]. |
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* I have posted two patches for PMS, describing the feature and then |
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restricting its usage to EAPI 5, see thread [2]. Short of rewriting all of |
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PMS, I've implemented all that was asked from me there. |
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* As for a reference implementation, Zac's comment basically was that it's not |
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too hard to do, and I'm hoping for his support. |
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Please restrict any follow-up *technical* discussion to gentoo-dev. |
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Cheers, |
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Andreas |
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[1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo- |
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dev/msg_53f32ab76ba5861d655436b0927e6956.xml |
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[2] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo- |
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pms/msg_8e5045bdb9761409a1a8a65ac2757c38.xml |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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