Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2012, 20:03:49 schrieben Sie: > > The idea would be *for the transition period*: have an additional > > directory > > base5, which contains eapi=5, the stable mask files and nothing else. > > > > After the transition period, these files are merged into the main profile > > directory, the base5 directory is removed from inheritance and deleted. > > > > During the transition period, an old installation using deprecated 10.0 > > profile will "not see the stable mask files", which means the additional > > useflag restrictions are just not enforced. Repoman will check against > > non- > > deprecated profiles, which means it uses the 13.0 path. > > Well, I guess it's acceptable. I think it's fine assuming that stable > users don't enable flags relevant to packages not being stable.
OK then unless someone brings up valid points against this, let's suggest for the upcoming meeting that Council decides * whether to implement solution a) as discussed in preceeding e-mails * and if yes, how long the waiting time between deprecation of 10.0 and removal of 10.0 shall be. [Alternative name for the eapi-5 directory: eapi5-base instead of base5 ?] -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/
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