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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:54:56 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADqQcK5T_S5FXYzQj2m0a-1tqTc9DyLEPGeeF0Xjo3UEqPEc5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E758121.8020002@gentoo.org>

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 09/17/2011 08:47 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> On 14:06 Fri 16 Sep     , Zac Medico wrote:
>>> Bumping the EAPI of the root profiles/eapi file would be a different
>>> matter, since it applies to the whole repository. If you want to
>>> version bump that repository-level EAPI, then you need to wait until
>>> at least 6 months after supporting package managers have been
>>> available in stable.
>>
>> So in your opinion, it would be fine to bump profiles/eapi to EAPI=4
>> now?
>
> Yes, it's feasible. As a consequence, we may get some complaints from
> users who haven't upgraded during the last six months.

I don't see any features in EAPI 3 and 4 that are useful for the
profiles. However, a bump to EAPI 2 (or at least 1) would be
*extremely* beneficial, and cause much less chaos.

Speaking with my GNOME hat, it will be *extremely* useful for
slot-masking GNOME packages.

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-18  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-09-07  9:07   ` [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting Tomáš Chvátal
2011-09-07  9:17     ` Andreas K. Hüttel
2011-09-07 13:21     ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-09-07 14:27       ` Tomáš Chvátal
2011-09-07 15:43         ` Michał Górny
2011-09-07 15:48     ` Michał Górny
2011-09-07 22:47       ` Aaron W. Swenson
2011-09-07 22:53         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-07 23:04           ` Brian Harring
2011-09-15  7:35           ` Michał Górny
2011-09-15  7:55             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-15  8:01               ` Michał Górny
2011-09-15  8:07                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-15 23:21               ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-09-15 23:54                 ` Brian Harring
2011-09-16  0:20                   ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-09-16 21:06                     ` Zac Medico
2011-09-18  3:47                       ` Donnie Berkholz
2011-09-18  5:26                         ` Zac Medico
2011-09-18  6:01                           ` Brian Harring
2011-09-18  6:57                           ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-09-18  9:24                           ` Nirbheek Chauhan [this message]
2011-09-18  9:33                             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-18 14:20                               ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2011-09-18 15:58                                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-18 16:14                                   ` Rich Freeman
2011-09-18 17:10                                 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-09-18 17:34                                 ` Zac Medico
2011-09-18 14:47                               ` Michał Górny
2011-09-18 15:54                                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-15 16:51             ` Brian Harring
2011-09-07 16:19     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-08 17:03     ` Thomas Sachau
2011-09-08 17:41       ` Alec Warner
2011-09-08 17:55       ` Ole Markus With
2011-09-08 18:10       ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-09-08 18:35         ` Michał Górny
2011-09-08 18:33           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-08 18:43             ` Michał Górny
2011-09-09  0:45         ` Mike Frysinger
2011-09-18 11:08       ` proposal for cross-compie support in EAPI-5, was: " Thomas Sachau

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