Re: [gentoo-dev] slot deps in package.mask and profiles

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

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On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:25:44 -0100
"Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@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
they discussed timeframes for using newer EAPIs then too. Did you see
that discussion?

As far as PMS is concerned, you just need to create a file named 'eapi'
containing a single line with '1' in it in each profiles/ directory in
which you want to use slot deps.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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