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+Summary of Gentoo council meeting 26 August 2014
+
+Agenda
+======
+1. Roll call (5 minutes)
+2. Dynamic dependencies in Portage [1] (15 minutes)
+3. Additional features for EAPI 6 [2] (15 minutes)
+4. Open bugs with council involvement (10 minutes)
+5. Open floor (10 minutes)
+
+
+Roll call
+=========
+Present: blueness, dilfridge, radhermit, rich0, ulm, williamh
+Absent: dberkholz
+
+Dynamic dependencies in Portage
+===============================
+During discussion, is was remarked that some changes, e.g. to
+dependencies in eclasses, could require mass rebuilds of packages.
+
+Vote:
+- "The council asks the Portage team to first outline their long-term
+  plan regarding removal or replacement of dynamic dependencies,
+  before they remove this feature. In particular, tree policies and
+  the handling of eclasses and virtuals need to be clarified."
+  Accepted unanimously.
+
+Note added in proof: The Portage team does not intend to remove
+dynamic dependencies, but only change their default to "off".
+
+Additional features for EAPI 6
+==============================
+The three proposed features were discussed and voted on separately.
+
+- Pass additional --docdir and --htmldir options to configure:
+  Accepted with 5 yes votes and 1 abstention.
+
+- Additional default suffixes for dohtml:
+  Rejected with 5 no votes and 1 abstention.
+
+- Variant of || () that is not runtime-switchable
+  (provisional approval, under the condition that the feature will
+  only be included if an implementation is ready):
+  Accepted unanimously.
+
+Open bugs with council involvement
+==================================
+- Bug 424647 "archives.gentoo.org: Broken URLs for e.g.
+  gentoo-dev-announce and others" [3]
+  No progress.
+  Action: Remove council from CC.
+
+- Bug 477030 "Missing summary for 20130611 council meeting" [4]
+  ulm has written a summary, which is approved.
+  Action: Commit the summary, close bug.
+
+- Bug 503382 "Missing summaries for 20131210, 20140114, and 20140225
+  council meetings" [5]
+  No progress since last meeting.
+
+- Bug 520074 "GLEP 39 rump council privilege escalation in secret
+  meeting" [6]
+  Most council members are of the opinion that this is of little
+  practical relevance.
+  Action: Remove council from CC.
+
+Open floor
+==========
+dilfridge remarks that axs has revbumped all ebuilds in dev-perl to
+EAPI 5. Some more complex ebuilds installing perl modules remain, so
+perl-cleaner is still needed.
+
+Next meeting date
+=================
+Tuesday, 9 Sep 2014, 19:00 UTC
+
+
+[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/3943
+[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/4002
+[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/424647
+[4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/477030
+[5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/503382
+[6] https://bugs.gentoo.org/520074