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On 03/11/2012 03:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Patrick Lauer<patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I'd deprecate eapi2 too, we don't need 5 flavours around when we |
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>> effectively only want to support one (and eapi0 in a few places) |
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>> I wouldn't mind having a deprecation timeline for eapi3 too (now +6 |
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>> months maybe?), but there's no need to rush things. |
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> Is there really much of a benefit to this? I guess for anybody who |
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> runs scripts to mass-manipulate ebuilds it might be helpful, but I |
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> think all the package managers planned on supporting all the EAPIs for |
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> quite a while longer. |
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> I can imagine that this will lead to quite a bit of churn with |
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> updating ebuilds and especially eclasses. If a package doesn't |
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> require a feature in a newer EAPI, what is the point? |
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+1, it doesn't make any sense unless the request is coming from |
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dev-portage@ developers (Zac namely :-) as a part of code cleanup |
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I still find EAPI=1 useful myself when, for example, new GNOME 3 |
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packages gets introduced to tree and there is a need to touch EAPI=0 |
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ebuilds just to add SLOT deps. |