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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting EAPI 5 *use.stable.mask to work in gx86?
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:44:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C7D369.2060204@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121211224558.531d438d@pomiocik.lan>

On 12/11/2012 01:45 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:35:07 -0800
> Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> 1) duplicate most of the major profiles. Make an EAPI 5-enabled wrapper
>>> profiles which will provide the *use.stable.mask files. Require users
>>> to migrate to those profiles after getting an EAPI 5 capable package
>>> manager (how?). Possibly mask the relevant flags completely in other
>>> profiles.
>>
>> I think this is the obvious solution. You can make users migrate by
>> adding "deprecated" files to the old profiles.
> 
> To be honest, I don't see much benefit from it compared to not having
> the *stable.use.mask files at all and just adding separate stable
> profiles.

The main use case for *use.stable.mask that I'm aware of is that it's
handy for masking flags to pass repoman checks. For example,
sys-apps/portage could use it for the pypy1_9 flag. Otherwise, we have
to mask that flag for a given portage version before we can add stable
keywords.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-12  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-10 21:27 [gentoo-dev] Getting EAPI 5 *use.stable.mask to work in gx86? Michał Górny
2012-12-11  2:01 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-12-11  6:32   ` Michał Górny
2012-12-11  6:35 ` Zac Medico
2012-12-11 21:45   ` Michał Górny
2012-12-12  0:44     ` Zac Medico [this message]
2012-12-12  9:32       ` Michał Górny
2012-12-12 10:30         ` Zac Medico
2012-12-13 20:33           ` Andreas K. Huettel
2012-12-13 20:43             ` Michał Górny
2012-12-13 21:46               ` Zac Medico
2012-12-14 12:38                 ` Markos Chandras
2012-12-14 14:29                   ` Michał Górny
2012-12-14 14:36                     ` Markos Chandras
2012-12-14 14:39                       ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-12-14 15:00                         ` Michał Górny
2012-12-14 14:59                       ` Michał Górny
2012-12-14 15:08                         ` Markos Chandras
2012-12-14 15:15                           ` Michał Górny
2012-12-14 20:50                             ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan

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