On 11/28/2010 11:56 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: >> >> It seems like the problem here is that we don't have separate profiles >> for stable and unstable keywords. The obvious solution would be to have >> separate profiles, mask the flags in the stable profiles, and unmask the >> flags in the unstable profiles. That way, repoman would continue to >> protect stable profile users from unsatisfiable dependencies, without >> unnecessarily masking those choices from unstable profile users. > > I would prefer small number of additional files instead of huge proliferation > of profiles. > You also suggested using EAPI="4"-specific profiles instead of EAPI-versioned > files, so eventually > we might have about 4 times more profiles :) . >
There's no requirement to keep old profiles around indefinitely. Old profiles will eventually go away once the new ones are the recommended option. As for this particular case I haven't really taken a close enough opinion to say if new profiles make the best sense or not. Regards, Petteri
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