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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:16:11
Message-Id: 4F5CC159.1020602@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1? by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
2 >> Is there really much of a benefit to this? I guess for anybody who
3 >> runs scripts to mass-manipulate ebuilds it might be helpful, but I
4 >> think all the package managers planned on supporting all the EAPIs for
5 >> quite a while longer.
6 > We have to support them indefinitely. It's not possible to uninstall a
7 > package whose EAPI is unknown.
8 >
9
10 Would it be feasible to do a pkg_pretend() check and refuse
11 install/upgrade if packages with unsupported EAPI are detected?
12
13
14 Best regards,
15 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1? Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1? Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>