On 09/15/2011 05:20 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> 2011-09-16 01:54:44 Brian Harring napisał(a):
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:21:55AM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar
>> Arahesis wrote:
>>> 2011-09-15 09:55:08 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a):
>>>> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:35:21 +0200
>>>> Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>> Could you point me to at least a single program not supporting dots
>>>>> in useflags? My quick check shows that all PMs handle them well, quse
>>>>> and euse as well.
>>>>
>>>> Hrm, it's rather disappointing that they're accepted everywhere. That
>>>> really shouldn't happen... My excuse for Paludis is that I never quite
>>>> got around to passing in additional flags to validation of names, and
>>>> dots are legal in exheres-0
>>>
>>> There is no reason for Gentoo to be worse than Exherbo and not allow dots
>>> in USE flags.
>>
>> Seriously Arfrever, drop the rhetoric here, and go fix the profile
>> compatibility issue.
>
> I suggest to support files with "-${EAPI}" suffix.
> Examples:
> profiles/package.mask-5
> profiles/use.desc-5
> profiles/base/package.mask-5
> profiles/base/package.use-5
> profiles/base/package.use.force-5
> profiles/base/package.use.mask-5
> profiles/base/use.force-5
> profiles/base/use.mask-5
> profiles/desc/python_abis.desc-5
>
I'd prefer not to use separate files per eapi, since that effectively
gives you multiple profiles that behave differently depending on the
supported EAPI of the package manager.
As an alternative, I suggest to use the 'eapi' file to specify the EAPI
for all files in the directory. If you want to roll out EAPI 5 profiles
sooner, then you can fork a new base profile that only supports EAPI 5
or later, and base new profiles off of that. 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.
--
Thanks,
Zac
