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List:       gentoo-project
Subject:    [gentoo-project] Re: Request for council vote - package.use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.force
From:       Ulrich Mueller <ulm () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2012-07-21 10:14:35
Message-ID: 20490.33035.216561.88691 () a1i15 ! kph ! uni-mainz ! de
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>>>>> On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Andreas K Huettel wrote:

> I would like to bring up for your next meeting agenda a vote on the adoption 
> of the following feature in EAPI 5: "Support package.use.stable.mask and 
> package.use.stable.force files in profile dirs that restrict the use flag 
> combinations only for stable packages". 

I'd much prefer if the council would vote on the tentative list of
EAPI 5 features in one single meeting. Let's envisage this for the
August or September meeting.

> * I have posted two patches for PMS, describing the feature and then
> restricting its usage to EAPI 5, see thread [2]. Short of rewriting
> all of PMS, I've implemented all that was asked from me there.

One thing that is still missing is a definition of the different
stabilisation levels. This should be added to chapter 7 of PMS where
the KEYWORDS variable is described. Shouldn't be difficult, as you can
follow <http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/>.

> * As for a reference implementation, Zac's comment basically was
> that it's not too hard to do, and I'm hoping for his support.

I would feel better it the implementation was ready before the council
had to decide on the feature. The long delay of EAPI 4 was mainly
caused by implementations not being ready, and we shouldn't repeat
this mistake.

Ulrich


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