Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Lars Wendler wrote:

> I don'f feel very well with this idea especially because no matter
> how hard I try I don't get comfortable with EAPI-3. No offense to
> our prefix guys, you surely did a hell of a good job and EAPI-3
> seems to really get you out of quite some trouble you had with
> earlier EAPIs, but... I for myself never tried a prefix installation
> and I don't have any intentions to do this in the foreseeable future
> so I still prefer EAPI-2 wherever I can simply because EAPI-3
> imposes overhead on my side which I have no real benefit from and I
> have no real clue about how to write proper EAPI-3 ebuilds.

As long as your ebuild doesn't need any keywords for prefix
architectures, nothing forces you to use ED and EROOT variables
instead of D and ROOT.

In other words, you can simply change the EAPI declaration in an
ebuild from 2 to 3 and it will continue to work.

Ulrich