-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > 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.
Acoording to this we will never be able to use slot deps in package.mask as it's a global file. Given my first mail, can we agree to make EAPI-1 the minimum EAPI for files under profiles/ ? Can we also create a rule on how / when to update the minimum EAPI in profiles/ ? > "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. > - -- Regards, Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl+X5kACgkQcAWygvVEyAKktgCghUzzq5xuvlM/OHkemWp/0QY2 QgIAn2yx8RX1cIcH2ufqSHtLrVRknAPf =fC70 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
