Dear Gentoo council, 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".
Why? This would allow switching off features that are know to be still problematic, while keeping the ebuild unchanged. Also, it would allow conditional dependencies on non-stable packages that automatically "go away on stabilization" (e.g., cups systemd support). * This has been discussed on the gentoo-dev mailing list, with an overall positive response and some good ideas on the exact semantics, see thread [1]. * 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. * 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. Please restrict any follow-up *technical* discussion to gentoo-dev. Cheers, Andreas [1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo- dev/msg_53f32ab76ba5861d655436b0927e6956.xml [2] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo- pms/msg_8e5045bdb9761409a1a8a65ac2757c38.xml -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/
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