From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1STfqw-0007vr-0P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 May 2012 20:57:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FDDBE06CC; Sun, 13 May 2012 20:57:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF4DE06CC for ; Sun, 13 May 2012 20:57:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.26.5] (ip98-164-193-252.oc.oc.cox.net [98.164.193.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 86E801B4046 for ; Sun, 13 May 2012 20:57:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4FB0201F.9050901@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 13:57:03 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120506 Thunderbird/12.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Re: EAPI 5 References: <20120415021641.1858ffde@gentoo.org> <20120427215824.3382e682@pomiocik.lan> <20120427211227.613709a2@googlemail.com> <201205010014.21031.dilfridge@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201205010014.21031.dilfridge@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 13dc0ff2-91a2-40ce-93f5-f2086bb36018 X-Archives-Hash: 0cc2858b220fb8ea50d0d555efa17e84 On 04/30/2012 03:14 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Freitag 27 April 2012, 22:12:27 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: >> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:58:24 +0200 >> >> Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: >>> Of course, if we take the 'quick EAPI 5 route', it won't include >>> anything useful. In the meantime, do we have a complete list of >>> candidates for EAPI 5? >> >> Let's continue this on the PMS list. >> > [...] >=20 > Pretty please,=20 >=20 > * package.use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.force support, as disc= ussed=20 > on gentoo-dev (there and on IRC feedback was pretty much positive) >=20 > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_6c492ae43ad7c70cef6aa8ac34911= adf.xml We'd probably also want to add a use.stable file, in order to control default USE settings for stable users. This could come in handy for creating default PYTHON_TARGETS settings that correspond to the users's latest visible slots of python, as discussed here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D415575#c5 --=20 Thanks, Zac