> On 19 Oct 2021, at 00:24, Francesco Riosa wrote:
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> Sorry but portage is too strictly related to the ebuilds in tree, recent
> removal of EAPI=5 from most eclasses underlined that.
> Or to put id differently if you want a LTS portage you also need a certain
> number of "protected" eclasses
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 4:25 PM Francesco Riosa wrote:
>
>
> Il giorno mar 5 ott 2021 alle ore 10:31 Michał Górny ha
> scritto:
>>
>> Hi, everyone.
>>
>> I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent
>> FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS
Il giorno mar 5 ott 2021 alle ore 10:31 Michał Górny ha
scritto:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent
> FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS
> branch of Portage.
>
> Roughly, the idea is that:
>
> - master become
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 1:31 AM Michał Górny wrote:
>
> Hi, everyone.
>
> I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent
> FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS
> branch of Portage.
>
> Roughly, the idea is that:
>
> - master becomes 3.1.x, and
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 13:16 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 17:13 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> >
> > > 2. What happens to the LTS branch when the next EAPI is released?
> > >
> >
> > I haven't really thought about it. Are you suggesting that we could
> > bump 'master' P
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 17:13 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
>
> > 2. What happens to the LTS branch when the next EAPI is released?
> >
>
> I haven't really thought about it. Are you suggesting that we could
> bump 'master' Portage to newer EAPI earlier or...?
>
I just mean that, a priori, the L
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 10:15 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 10:31 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi, everyone.
> >
> > I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent
> > FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS
> > branch of
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 10:31 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent
> FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS
> branch of Portage.
>
I think this is healthy for most software projects, but t
In all fairness, there haven't been that much incidents with Portage in
the past under Zac's supervision, isn't it a bit overkill to
bureaucratise the release model just after one incident? It appears to
me that changes to Portage need to be considered very carefully, always,
since it affects ever