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From: Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o>
Subject: Re: changing EAPI on existing ebuilds. To bump or not?
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:12:31 +0300
Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:39:41 +1300
> Alistair Bush <ali_bush@g.o> wrote:
>> Anyway,  would be nice to get some feedback, idea's on this and
>> hopefully also a more detailed explaination from a pm's perspective
>> (if there is one).
> 
> For current EAPIs, there's nothing specifically wrong about changing
> EAPI from a package manager perspective. If future EAPIs change the
> metadata they install or the way the treat use flags, there might be
> issues, but it's safe to do 0 to 1 to 2.
> 

Yeah I think the current issues we are seeing can be considerd a Portage 
bug. I don't think I got any reports with EAPI 1 when switching it for 
existing ebuilds so maybe there is something different in the code base 
this time.

Regards,
Petteri

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