Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

[Alexis Ballier]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:53:18 +0200
Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:

> Seriously, what people is still having problems with handling eapi4?
> If there are doubts about its usage, they should be asked and resolved
> instead of ignored keeping ebuilds with older eapis. The only eapi
> that probably adds no advantage for a lot of ebuilds is eapi3, but
> that is not the case for eapi4 for example, that includes changes
> that should be incorporated by most packages in the tree, some of
> them introduced by it and others inherited from older eapis.
>
> What is the advantage of using eapi2 over eapi4 for example? What
> "hard to learn" change was included in eapi4 over eapi2?

Were you around when eapi2 got out and we had a bunch of packages
running econf twice because we wanted to quickly get rid of
built_with_use?

A 5 mins fix is a 5 mins fix, if you include an eapi bump in those 5
mins then i expect crap to be committed to the tree or nothing at all.