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

["Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>]

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On 11/28/2010 11:56 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
>>
>> 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 :) .
> 

There's no requirement to keep old profiles around indefinitely. Old
profiles will eventually go away once the new ones are the recommended
option. As for this particular case I haven't really taken a close
enough opinion to say if new profiles make the best sense or not.

Regards,
Petteri


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