Someone gave me a patch to mesa that uses bash-3 features, and it made me wonder how people feel about this. Adding individual deps to each ebuild is weird; I'd prefer to do this at the profile level, in profiles/base/packages. It already contains bash, so we'd just be enforcing a minimal version. baselayout has required bash-3 for nearly 2 years, so pretty much everybody ought to have it. At that point, we should be able to use bash-3 syntax where it's useful in pretty much anything besides the bash ebuild itself, and perhaps its deps.
In a nutshell: Let's change profiles/base/packages from "*app-shells/bash" to "*>=app-shells/bash-3". Thanks, Donnie
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