>>>>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Peter Alfredsen wrote:

>> No, an EAPI bump is necessary. Older (post-EAPI) Portage versions
>> do something different, so any ebuild relying upon particular
>> behaviour is already broken.

> For an example of this, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/264308

I would say that is a secondary problem, caused by the package manager
not preserving mtimes, and the eclass trying to work around it.

Ulrich