On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Arun Raghavan <arunisgod@...> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
> <ciaran.mccreesh@...> wrote:
> [...]
>> That's not how it works. We've seen plenty of times in the past
>> that forcing QA by making users' systems break (which is how far these
>> things get before they're fixed) just leads to lots of annoyed users.
>> EAPI, plus slowly moving things towards new EAPIs on version bumps once
>> newer EAPIs are widely supported, is the clean way of doing this.
>
> This might be the clean way to do it, but the unfortunate truth is
> that new EAPIs seem to be becoming "standard" pretty darn slowly, and
> counting on one to implement a feature that is definitely very useful
> for QA seems to be miring ourselves in unnecessary bureaucracy.

(Replying to a random snippet)

There has been previous discussion on
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138792

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