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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 2 is brokened :(
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:20:08
Message-Id: 48EE8363.8030509@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 2 is brokened :( by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > Unfortunately Portage and Pkgcore have broken EAPI 2 implementations.
6 > So far as I can see:
7 >
8 > Portage:
9 >
10 > * doesn't implement the 'default' function correctly for src_prepare.
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12 This is fixed and released in sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc12.
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14 > None of these are very nice. Better options would be encouraged... We
15 > have to do *something*, though, because this is hitting users already
16 > (see bug 240684 for one).
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18 Like I said in the council thread, I think you may be overreacting.
19 No version of sys-apps/portage that supports EAPI 2 has been marked
20 stable yet so the fact that some unstable versions were a little
21 buggy is not a big problem since unstable users tend to upgrade
22 relatively frequently and sys-apps/portage is promoted to the from
23 of the merge list anyway.
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25 Thanks,
26 Zac
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