[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Label profiles with EAPI for compatibility checks (revised)

2008-10-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, This is a revised version of the profile EAPI lables proposal which has been discussed previously [1]. Please consider a new 'eapi' profile configuration file that will designate the EAPI to which any package atoms within the files of a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Label profiles with EAPI for compatibility checks

2008-10-04 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:09:43 -0700 > Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In order to allow mixed EAPIs in the profiles, and to avoid having >> to configure the EAPI in every single layer, each directory of the >> profile s

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Label profiles with EAPI for compatibility checks

2008-10-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:09:43 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In order to allow mixed EAPIs in the profiles, and to avoid having > to configure the EAPI in every single layer, each directory of the > profile stack should be able to either override or inherit the EAPI > value that may h

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Label profiles with EAPI for compatibility checks

2008-10-03 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Please consider a new "eapi" profile configuration file that will designate the EAPI to which any package atoms within a given layer of the profile stack must conform. This will allow package managers to bail out with an informative error