
\summary{2009}{4}{23}

Agenda call: \agoref{gentoo-dev}{af81eace7b85e0816f7ad2cc7a48b6b1}

Agenda announcement: \agoref{gentoo-dev}{a479d63271107b7cb03a3e40f28735c7}


\agendaitem{Portage changing behaviour without EAPI bumps}
\index{package!sys-apps/portage}\index{PMS}

David Leverton (dleverton) requested that the council mandate that portage is 
not allowed to change behaviour that is specified in PMS, as has occurred a few 
times in the past.

Conclusion: The council decided that if PMS-conflicting changes occur in package 
managers the council will ensure that conflicting versions are masked, excepting 
extenuating circumstances.


\agendaitem{EAPI 3}
\index{EAPI!3}

EAPI 3's features have been finalized and its final approval is pending portage 
support for the most important features. Some less critical features may be 
removed if they cannot be accomplished in a reasonable timeframe and are 
holding up the introduction of the critical features. This summary of features 
lists only those features discussed on the April 23 meeting of the Gentoo 
Council.

\begin{itemize}
\item 
New utility functions: 'doexample'/'doinclude'\index{doexample}\index{doinclude}

Some council members believed that adding these utility functions would 
complicate things for new ebuild authors while not providing any especially 
needed features.

Conclusion: Voted to not be included in EAPI 3 (2 yes, 4 no).

\item
Ban $\vert\vert$ ( use? ( ... ) ... ) 
\index{$\vert\vert$ dependencies}\index{dependencies!$\vert\vert$}

\dev{leio} argued that banning such constructs is strictly a QA issue and 
shouldn't be covered by PMS, while others argued that there are no valid use 
cases for the construct and that you need appropriate rules to parse RDEPEND / 
DEPEND.

Conclusion: It was decided that a repoman warning would be most appropriate for 
this case and that the topic of banning it in an EAPI can be revisited for EAPI 
4.

\item
Ban 'dohard'\index{dohard}

Currently dohard cannot be guaranteed to work across filesystems and few 
packages use it.

Conclusion: Voted to be banned in EAPI 3.
\item
New econf options, '--disable-dependency-tracking' / '--enable-fast-install', 
see \bug{211529}
\index{disable-dependency-tracking}\index{enable-fast-install}
\index{--disable-dependency-tracking}\index{--enable-fast-install}

The addition of '--enable-fast-install' to the econf command line was opposed 
because it is already a libtool default and as such is useless. No arguments
were made against '--disable-dependency-tracking'.

Conclusion: '--disable-dependency-tracking' was voted in, while 
'--enable-fast-install' was voted out.
\item
Add --if-compressed option to unpack(). \index{if-compressed} 
\index{unpack}\index{--if-compressed}
            
Conclusion: Voted to be not included in EAPI 3.
\item
Slot operator dependencies (:= and :*) \index{slot operators}
\index{dependencies!:=}\index{dependencies!:*}
            
Conclusion: Voted to be included in EAPI 3. \dev{leio} has remaining questions 
about the final syntax.
\end{itemize}
