Re: [gentoo-dev] New ebuild metadata to mark how robust the package is?

[Petteri Räty]

Tobias Klausmann wrote:
>
> Come to think of it, how about an ewarn/einfo that is only
> triggered on fresh installs, but not on upgrades? You can still
> warn that foobard needs an etc-update and a restart, but I don't
> need to be reminded where the examples are every time.
>
> Ideally, one would be an einfo and one an ewarn, but in my
> experience, many messages are ewarns "to be safe" (or so I
> suspect).
>

With EAPI 3 easy to add wrappers around e* using REPLACING_VERSIONS and
REPLACED_BY_VERSION.

Regards,
Petteri