Roll Call: =========== Betelgeuse: here Cardoe: here dberkholz: here dertobi123: here dev-zero: here leio: here lu_zero: To Be Determined, 37 minutes late tanderson(secretary): here Topics: =========== EAPI-3 Proposals: Note: The following two proposals were discussed before it was realized that there was not sufficient time to discuss all of them. At that point a call for objections to any of the proposals found at [1] was asked for, and none were made. A full list of proposals for EAPI 3 follow. - New phase: pkg_pretend This phase is most useful for displaying conflicting USE flags at dependency resolution time(pretend), though it has various other uses so that errors about installing the package can be displayed before installation of packages begin. Conclusion: Approved for the draft. - [flag(+/-)] USE dependencies This may be needed when one wishes to depend on a package with a certain USE flag but if the USE flag is not present in that package assume it is on or off(+ and - respectively). Conclusion: Approved for the draft. - Multislot Dependency Specifications This allows ebuils to tell the package manager that runtime dependencies are not swappable(:1 installed at runtime can't be removed even though :2 'satisfies' the dependency). - PROPERTIES mandatory in cache Some information provided by this variable is useful at --pretend time(interactive packages). - DEFINED_PHASES mandatory in cache Same reasons as for PROPERTIES, but is also useful for determining the phases a package provides with just the cache. - Provide a default src_install prototype. Get rid of the need for the src_install functions with just `emake install` in them. Some discussion is needed to clear up issues with a DOCS variable for extra documentation and a list of docs to automatically get installed. - Provide a `docompress` function. This function serves as a replacement for prepalldocs. `docompress` can optionally compress files in /usr/share/doc according to a set of inclusion and exclusion lists. - Provide a '-r' option to `dodoc` Providing a way to put `dodoc` in recursive mode is widely accepted. - Make `doins` preserve symlinks This obsoletes the `cp -R` constructs frequently seen and is easy to implement. - Limit values in $USE to those in $IUSE. Certain USE_EXPAND flags may be in USE even if they aren't specifically set in IUSE. Eliminate this. Next Action: The Council agreed to have portage implement as many of these as possible in a month and then make that EAPI 3. Technical Agenda Items: - GLEP 54 Thomas(tanderson) sent out a comparison of GLEP 54 and the liveebuild proposals. Among those discussing GLEP 54 there was a general consensus that there was nothing wrong with it as a first step to get correct ordering. Luca(lu_zero) commented that all he was concerned about was that there was not enough 'meat' to the GLEP. Next Action: Doug(Cardoe) and Luca(lu_zero) intend to write a GLEP to handle the second part of the problem(making the revision available to ebuilds/package manager/users. - GLEP 55 Petteri, Zac, and Ciaran were supposed to benchmark the various proposals and report back. Zac did not write the code for portage so Petteri had nothing to report on this issue. Ciaran commented that the solutions other than GLEP 55 had a 50% slowdown in the valid cache situation compared to GLEP55, but did not post the raw numbers or the patches used. Next Action: Zac needs to benchmark the proposals in portage. Open Floor: =========== - Migration of KEYWORDS from ebuilds to profiles: Ned Ludd(solar) brought this up, but it came up in the middle of agenda items so was not talked about much. Some points were made that such a scheme would require a git conversion, but nothing was agreed upon. References: [1]: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pPAJXP6shYH78lCXeqRqCUQ