I have noticed that the arch profile directories (profiles/arch/$ARCH) are not EAPI 5 capable. These profiles are inherited by both the default and hardened profiles and contain arch-specific settings. They are often used to override masks set in the base profile.
The base profile already has an EAPI 5 equivalent in profiles/eapi-5-files. I would like to add use.stable.mask to the arch profiles to avoid duplicating entries in profiles/default/linux/$ARCH/13.0/use.stable.mask and profiles/hardened/linux/$ARCH/use.stable.mask. This would make future stabilizations of dev-lang/python easier to coordinate. [1] Is it acceptable to just bump eapi to 5 in the existing arch profiles? This would render the default/linux/$ARCH/10.0 profiles unusable in old version of portage. Here are a couple of alternatives: 1. Add profiles/eapi-5-files/$ARCH. 2. Add profiles/$ARCH/eapi-5-files. In either case, the default (13.0) and hardened profiles would be adjusted to inherit these. Which option do we prefer? Is there a better option? [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474128#c33
