On 03/30/2018 08:16 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 12:42:09PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: >> Dnia 30 marca 2018 11:01:33 CEST, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): >>> On 03/30/2018 01:42 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >>>> Dnia 30 marca 2018 09:07:03 CEST, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> >>> napisał(a): >>>>> On 03/29/2018 10:20 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >>>>>> Dnia 30 marca 2018 06:30:14 CEST, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> >>>>> napisał(a): >>>>>>> commit: 3f04d4d93d00afa5242a0c9459487c9eea7e9a6f >>>>>>> Author: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> >>>>>>> AuthorDate: Fri Mar 30 04:18:05 2018 +0000 >>>>>>> Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> >>>>>>> CommitDate: Fri Mar 30 04:30:05 2018 +0000 >>>>>>> URL: >>>>>>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3f04d4d9 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> app-portage/repoman: version bump to 2.3.8 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This release adds support for plugin module systems. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> See: >>>>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Repoman-Module-specs >>>>>>> Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.27_p1, Repoman-2.3.8 >>>>>> >>>>>> Please revert this immediately. This was never finished, had open >>>>> concerns that were never addressed and the added Gentoo repository >>>>> files were never subject to proper RFC/review that was requested. >>>>> >>>>> I've disabled this feature by default, and hidden it behind an >>>>> --experimental-repository-modules=<y|n> option. >>>> >>>> That isn't going to work for me. Given that the yml files were added >>> to repository without prior discussion, and contrary to the promises >>> given by Portage team such discussion hasn't been started before >>> merging the changes to master, I'd like to request removing all those >>> files and not reintroducing them until Portage team specifies their >>> format and brings it to open discussion. >>> >>> Yeah I agree that the format really needs a proper specification. I've >>> gone ahead and removed them: >>> >>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f62e76a1e0202dcf55faa2b0fd9b21a1cd184dc8 >> >> Thanks. I hope this will let us start with a clean slate towards making a >> good format. > > If there is some distro policy that this repoman enhancement violated, > that's fine and I would like to know about it, but I'm not aware of it.
The format is definitely not fully baked, and will likely change, so I think it's better to wait for it to mature some more. > If there isn't, as far as I know, there is no reason for it to be > blocked. This is not really blocking anything, people can go ahead and use the repoman --experimental-repository-modules=y option, even add it to REPOMAN_DEFAULT_OPTS, and it will just work. -- Thanks, Zac
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