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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 19:12:42
Message-Id: 4F5CF8C8.8020606@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1? by Rich Freeman
1 Rich Freeman schrieb:
2 > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
3 > <chithanh@g.o> wrote:
4 >> Assume a new version 13.37 of your package manager drops EAPI=1 support.
5 >> So package-manager-13.37.ebuild checks in pkg_pretend() if any EAPI=1
6 >> package is installed on the system. If yes, then it aborts, telling the
7 >> user to get rid of the package first.
8 >>
9 >> That way, the situation where the package manager does not know how to
10 >> uninstall a package is avoided.
11 > I take it that removing a package without using a package manager is
12 > left as an exercise to the reader?
13
14 The user will have to remove the package using his current, EAPI=1
15 capable package manager.
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18 Best regards,
19 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn