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From: justin <jlec@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:44:46
Message-Id: 4D3F4422.6030709@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree by Lars Wendler
1 On 25/01/11 22:33, Lars Wendler wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I don'f feel very well with this idea especially because no matter how hard I
5 > try I don't get comfortable with EAPI-3. No offense to our prefix guys, you
6 > surely did a hell of a good job and EAPI-3 seems to really get you out of
7 > quite some trouble you had with earlier EAPIs, but...
8 > I for myself never tried a prefix installation and I don't have any intentions
9 > to do this in the foreseeable future so I still prefer EAPI-2 wherever I can
10 > simply because EAPI-3 imposes overhead on my side which I have no real benefit
11 > from and I have no real clue about how to write proper EAPI-3 ebuilds.
12 >
13
14 You can use EAPI=3 completely independent from prefix support.

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