Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2013-01-08

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 12/27/2012 05:37 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> EAPI 5 provides use.stable.mask files to solve this but those files
> require profiles to be EAPI 5. Therefore, in order to be able to use it
> we would have to actually break the update path for older portage
> versions completely.

So, adding new profiles and deprecating the old ones is considered to
"break the update path for older versions"? I don't a problem with
deprecating profiles and forcing users to switch. The only manual labor
involved could be `emerge -1 portage && eselect profile set <target>`.

> I have tried to raise the topic on the mailing list [1] but it mostly
> resulted in some people agreeing that it is an issue that should be
> addressed but no real ideas.
> 
> I have come up with three possible solutions myself. Long story short:
> 
> a) adding new profiles which will require EAPI=5 and requiring all
> users to migrate to them after upgrading portage. Using new
> use.stable.mask files in those profiles.

This was my plan all along, and seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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Thanks,
Zac