[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 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 have

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 stack

[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