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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo Project <gentoo-project@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: Questions for candidates for Gentoo Council 2013/2014
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 04:38:03
Message-Id: 201307030637.41920.Arfrever.FTA@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Questions for candidates for Gentoo Council 2013/2014 by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
1 Here is updated list of questions with fixes and added URLs.
2
3 01. What interval (in months) between introductions of new EAPIs do you prefer?
4
5 02. Will you vote for moving system packages (gcc, glibc etc.) to EAPI >=3?
6
7 03. Will you vote for moving system packages (gcc, glibc etc.) to EAPI >=4?
8
9 04. Will you vote for moving system packages (gcc, glibc etc.) to EAPI >=5?
10
11 # EAPIs 1 and 2 are currently deprecated in gentoo-x86.
12 # Deprecation of an EAPI in gentoo-x86 has no effect to what is supported by
13 # package managers and what is described in PMS.
14
15 05. Will you vote for deprecation of EAPI 0 in gentoo-x86?
16
17 06. Will you vote for deprecation of EAPI 3 in gentoo-x86?
18
19 07. Will you vote for deprecation of EAPI 4 in gentoo-x86?
20
21 08. Will you vote for including support for version ranges in EAPI 6
22 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
23 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4315
24 # http://exherbo.org/docs/exheres-for-smarties.html#package_dependencies "Multiple version requirements"
25
26 09. Will you vote for including support for USE-flag-dependent slots in EAPI 6
27 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
28 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174407
29
30 10. Will you vote for including support for package.mask, package.use
31 and {,package.}use{,.stable}.{force,mask} directories in EAPI 6
32 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
33 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282296
34
35 11. Will you vote for providing master_repositories(), repository_path(),
36 available_eclasses(), eclass_path() and license_path() functions in EAPI 6
37 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
38 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373349
39
40 12. Will you vote for removing PORTDIR and ECLASSDIR variables in EAPI 6
41 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
42 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373349
43 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373351
44
45 13. Will you vote for including support for automatic unpack dependencies
46 (configurable in single location in repository) in EAPI 6
47 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
48 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399307
49
50 14. Will you vote for allowing bash-4.2 features in EAPI 6
51 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
52 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431340
53
54 15. Will you vote for enabling globstar shell option by default in EAPI 6
55 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
56 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414811
57
58 16. Will you vote for providing REPOSITORY variable in EAPI 6
59 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
60 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414813
61
62 17. Will you vote for including support for repository dependencies in EAPI 6
63 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
64 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414815
65
66 18. Will you vote for including support for repository-specific
67 package.use and {,package.}use{,.stable}.{force,mask} in EAPI 6
68 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
69 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414817
70
71 19. Will you vote for including support for optional run-time dependencies
72 controlled by run-time-switchable USE flags (GLEP 62) in EAPI 6
73 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
74 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424283
75 # http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0062.html
76
77 20. Will you vote for including support for host/target-specific dependencies in EAPI 6
78 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
79 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317337
80
81 21. Will you vote for including support for crosscompilation-specific
82 dependencies in EAPI 6
83 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
84 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317337
85
86 22. Will you vote for including support for DEPENDENCIES variable with labels in EAPI 6
87 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
88 # http://exherbo.org/docs/exheres-for-smarties.html#dependencies
89
90 23. Will you vote for including support for labels in SRC_URI variable in EAPI 6
91 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
92 # http://exherbo.org/docs/exheres-for-smarties.html#downloads
93
94 24. Will you vote for exporting XDG_CACHE_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME
95 and XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variables (with useful values) in EAPI 6
96 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
97 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444568
98
99 25. Will you vote for including support for unique subslots for live ebuilds in EAPI 6
100 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
101 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444366
102
103 26. Will you vote for including support for transitive subslots in EAPI 6
104 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
105 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449094
106
107 27. Will you vote for including support for subslot dictionaries in EAPI 6
108 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
109 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462138
110
111 28. Will you vote for including support for ico, svg, xhtml and xml files in
112 dohtml in EAPI 6
113 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
114 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423245
115
116 29. Will you vote for disallowing diropts(), docompress(), exeopts(), insopts(),
117 keepdir(), libopts(), use(), use_enable(), use_with(), useq(), usev() and usex()
118 functions in global scope in EAPI 6
119 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
120
121 30. Will you vote for including support for src_fetch() function in EAPI 6
122 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
123 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249086
124
125 31. Will you vote for including support for "." characters in package names in EAPI 6
126 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
127
128 32. Will you vote for including support for "." characters in USE flags in EAPI 6
129 (assuming that a patch is available for Portage)?
130 # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311795
131
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133 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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