Gentoo KDE kdebuild-1 EAPI GuideThe Gentoo KDE project has provided an official overlay with KDE4 live ebuilds ("kde" in layman/playman) and some of their dependencies for quite some time. The team's progress has been impaired by the absence of features like standardised live ebuilds as per GLEP 54, USE dependencies and package dependency labels. Thus, the idea arose to create a new, stable EAPI for use in the overlay for live ebuilds as those would benefit the most from those features. Unfortunately, Portage doesn't support any of those features yet and so the team decided to use Paludis. After some discussion with Ciaran McCreesh we came up with kdebuild-1. The kdeuild-1 EAPI is based upon EAPI 1 with some notable additions and changes. This chapter outlines those differences and gives a short reasoning for them. For detailed information you should refer to PMS (pdf).
kdebuild-1 is currently being used for for live ebuilds (${PV}=-scm) in the KDE overlays only, so that users of other PMs will be able to use the rest of the overlay as before. That's exactly what the kdebuild-1 EAPI was designed to allow for. For users of the KDE overlay's live ebuilds the new EAPI currently means they will have to use Paludis. As other package managers might be interested in the features of kdebuild-1, too, it's optionally included in PMS. For the KDE team using kdebuild-1 means we will be able to use exciting new features and make our lifes easier. For Gentoo as a whole this means there's plenty of opportunity to try new stuff and learn from the experiences. The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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