Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4"

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 11/28/2010 01:56 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> 2010-11-28 21:30:47 Zac Medico napisał(a):
>> It seems like the problem here is that we don't have separate profiles
>> for stable and unstable keywords. The obvious solution would be to have
>> separate profiles, mask the flags in the stable profiles, and unmask the
>> flags in the unstable profiles. That way, repoman would continue to
>> protect stable profile users from unsatisfiable dependencies, without
>> unnecessarily masking those choices from unstable profile users.
> 
> I would prefer small number of additional files instead of huge proliferation of profiles.
> You also suggested using EAPI="4"-specific profiles instead of EAPI-versioned files, so eventually
> we might have about 4 times more profiles :) .

It would only be 2 times in profiles.desc, since my suggestion regarding
the EAPI 4 profiles was to deprecate the older profiles and drop them
from profiles.desc.
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Thanks,
Zac