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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:34:58
Message-Id: 5080D845.2030103@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages. by Ryan Hill
1 On 10/18/2012 09:09 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
2 > Anyways, we're seriously getting off topic here. I don't think anyone
3 > objected to removing the EAPI 0 requirement for system packages (and in
4 > reality no one follows it anyways.
5
6 An EAPI 0 requirement for system packages is just silly these days.
7
8 > Even portage is EAPI 3).
9
10 For the recored, stable portage is EAPI 2, and there wasn't much choice
11 in the matter since portage depends on python-2.6 which uses EAPI 2 (and
12 we don't want EAPI 0 or 1 package managers pulling in a portage which
13 depends on a python with an unsupported EAPI).
14 --
15 Thanks,
16 Zac