Future EAPI/EAPI 7 tentative features

This is a working page that contains references to all features that have been suggested for EAPI 7.

Note
The Gentoo Council has accepted EAPI 7 in bug #654262 on 2018-04-30. The final wording can be found in the PMS document (PDF). This page is kept for historical and documentation purposes.

The following list of features accepted or not accepted for EAPI 7 is based on Gentoo Council meetings of 2017-11-12 and 2018-04-08.

Accepted

New features

• BDEPEND and SYSROOT

  bug #317337

  • Rejected from EAPI 6 (called HDEPEND there; now heavily modified)

• Profile-defined unsetting of variables (ENV_UNSET)

  bug #499288

• New eqawarn command

  bug #482884

• Controllable stripping and dostrip

  bug #203891

• Functions for version comparison and version component expansion

  bug #482170

Enhancements of existing features

• Directory support for profiles/package.mask

  bug #282296

  • Not intended for gentoo-x86 tree, only to be used in overlays
  • From original EAPI 6 feature list

• Directory support for profile files

  bug #282296

  • Not intended for gentoo-x86 tree, only to be used in overlays
  • From original EAPI 6 feature list

• Implement nonfatal as both a function and an external command

  bug #622894

• Allow die in subshell/subcommand

  bug #465008

Other changes

• Empty || ( ) and ^^ ( ) groups no longer count as being matched

  bug #636596

• Remove trailing slash from {,E}ROOT and {,E}D

  bug #465772

• Require GNU patch 2.7

  bug #593786

• Require einfo and other output functions not to pollute stdout

  bug #483240

• Make domo install to /usr instead of DESTTREE

  bug #595924

Removals and bans

• Ban package.provided in profiles

  bug #568884

• Ban PORTDIR and ECLASSDIR variables

  bug #373349, bug #373351

• Ban DESTTREE and INSDESTTREE variables

  bug #173630

• Ban dohtml function

  bug #520546

  • From original EAPI 6 feature list; dohtml was deprecated in EAPI 6

• Ban dolib and libopts commands

  bug #630416

Not accepted

• Bash 4.3

  bug #636652

• Runtime-switchable USE flags

  bug #424283

  • From original EAPI 6 feature list

• Variant of || ( ) with defined runtime behaviour

  bug #489458

  • From original EAPI 6 feature list

• Automatic use enforcing (GLEP 73)

  bug #609338

• Sandbox control (sandbox{off,save,restore})

  bug #630422