On 21:04 Sun 25 Jan , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:25:44 -0100 > "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvice...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I talked to Zac <zmedico> earlier in #gentoo-portage about adding an > > entry to package.mask for KDE-4.2.0 using slot deps. Thomas > > <tanderson> and Patrick <bonsaikitten> raised the concern we might > > need profile eapis and that PMS nailed p.mask to EAPI-0. > > Zac confirmed that the first stable version to support slot deps in p. > > mask was 2.1.3.16, that it was stabled in bug 197165 - 14 months ago > > - - and that the first stages to include it were the 2008.0 stages. > > Thus, can we finally give the ok to use slot deps in package.mask? Can > > we also give the ok to use it everywhere in all 2008.0 and later > > profiles/ ? > > The Council approved profile eapi files for use a while ago (can't > remember when -- http://council.gentoo.org/ isn't being updated), and
Last month's meeting > they discussed timeframes for using newer EAPIs then too. Did you see > that discussion? "An EAPI=0 profile always needs to exist so that users with old portage can upgrade. Otherwise they will sync and have no valid profile available so cannot emerge a new version of portage. "Decision: Approved. Existing stable profiles must use EAPI=0. New or dev ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ profiles can use higher EAPIs. "Ref: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_930f58fcebcbbcbe523c001f2c825179.xml" I haven't finished & posted last month's summary <http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/20081211-summary.txt> yet because of a long holiday vacation and lots of work deadlines after returning. I'll get all that stuff updated this week. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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