From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I81n8-00030W-5I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:33:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l69MUcrP021563; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:30:38 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l69MQjwx014731 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:26:45 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A418D3F7 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:26:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10402-06 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:26:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from snowflake (82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.57.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3103B8D30C for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:26:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 23:26:19 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] should we do an EAPI bump now with features that are already implemented? Message-ID: <20070709232619.7d7052b5@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <4692B388.9030604@gentoo.org> References: <4692B388.9030604@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_zHmAB0tryoMl10jnrioOuEu; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: dbde4831-a785-4692-ae57-df70d7eca96b X-Archives-Hash: aa4e21a67ecee7534c12e49083f712a0 --Sig_zHmAB0tryoMl10jnrioOuEu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:15:36 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > Bug 174380 [1] has a growing list of features that may be included in > EAPI-1. Some of the features are already implemented but can't be > used in the portage tree until we do an EAPI bump. The ones that are > currently implemented include slot deps [2] and iuse defaults [3]. > Are these features important enough to warrant an EAPI bump or should > we wait for more features to materialize? No point waiting when there're useful things that can be done straight away. Slot deps at least meet that. As for IUSE defaults... There were objections against that feature on the grounds that it's unnecessary and increased maintenance. Do they really offer any benefit over package.use? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_zHmAB0tryoMl10jnrioOuEu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGkrYL96zL6DUtXhERAgbiAJ9TmIcFMbMB4yiyCXYwLleDMasyxgCgyzyA mZ4aCCordt0x4/tIYJEUEtQ= =IsAl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_zHmAB0tryoMl10jnrioOuEu-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list