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On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:37 PM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, Marek Szuba wrote: |
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> > The next Gentoo Council meeting will take place on 2022-02-13 |
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> > (Sunday), starting 19:00 UTC. |
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> > Please reply to this e-mail with proposed agenda items. If you |
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> > suggested anything between the last council meeting and now, you are |
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> > encouraged to raise the matter again in this thread and include |
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> > link(s) to your earlier communication. |
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> As I had announced in the January meeting, I'd ask the Council to |
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> pre-approve the list of features for EAPI 9, as listed here: |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Future_EAPI/EAPI_9_tentative_features |
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> - Eclass revisions [1] |
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> - EAPI of profiles defaults to repository EAPI [2] |
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> - Allow comments in profile parent files [3] |
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> - econf: Ensure proper end of string in configure --help output [4] |
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> This will be an EAPI with few new features, and its motivation is mainly |
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> to have eclass revisions. The second and third feature will affect only |
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> profiles, and the fourth feature is effectively a bug fix. |
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> There were also ideas about no longer exporting A (or alternatively, any |
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> variables) to the ebuild environment [5], but nobody has come forward |
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> with a concrete proposal yet. So, IMHO it will need more discussion and |
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> won't be ready for EAPI 9; developers who have asked for the feature may |
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> consider leading that discussion. IIUC, these would be the TeX and Go |
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> maintainers. |
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I think the issue with packages with large SRC_URI has very little to |
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do with ${A} (which I think has a straightforward fix) and more to do |
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with the 2nd and 3rd order effects. |
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Large manifests (because we have to checksum all the files and verify them.) |
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Very long computations (because we have to verify all the files.) |
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More mirror load (because these packages often pin on git commit, |
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instead of on released versions, or simply release very often, meaning |
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we are required to mirror 20-30 versions of a package instead of a |
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lower number.) |
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Solving A is easy, solving the other problems seems to involve tougher |
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tradeoffs. |
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-A |
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> Ulrich |
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> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/806592 |
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> [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/806181 |
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> [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/470094 |
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> [4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/815169 |
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> [5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/721088 |
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