[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-council] Upcoming Council meeting on July 26th, 1900 UTC

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 01:05:02AM +0300, Alex Alexander wrote:
> The Council will have its next meeting on the 26th of July, 2010.
> 
> The meeting will begin at 1900 UTC.
> 
> You may use [0] to find out the correct time in your timezone.
> 
> Here's a draft list of the meeting topics so far:
> * vote on adding --as-needed to the default profile's LDFLAGS
> * discuss (and maybe vote on) required-use
>         http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/required-use.html

Adding eclass removal policy to the agenda; it directly affects devs, 
and the previous policy (imo) is misinterpretted slightly.

Specifically, 06/01/08, portage 2.1.4.4 went stable; this had env 
saving/restoration support.  The original council decree was that 
eclasses had to sit for 2 years- I very strongly posit that the time 
period there should've been bound to portage env capabilities rather 
than eclass timelines.

Reasoning is simple enough- w/ a proper PM, eclasses can be 
removed/modified at will without affecting binpkgs/installed pkgs.

So the question I'd like on the agenda is basically if there is any 
reason to preserve the decree- if not, punt it.

~harring

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