On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:50:10PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:26:49 -0800
> Brian Harring <ferringb@...> wrote:
> > There also is the angle that deploying g55 requires waiting at least
> > a full stage release (~year, at least by the old standards) to ensure 
> > people aren't screwed by the repository changing formats 
> > (unversioned!) under their feet.
> 
> No it doesn't. It's transparent to users using an older package manager.

Would be useful if someone pulled older portage versions and checked 
exactly what they do in this case- explode, behave, etc (manifest 
behaviour included).  It's been several years, but I recall portage 
having problems at the onset of EAPI w/ it.

Beyond that, what I was stating was that the user doesn't get told 
"sorry, your manager is too old, upgrade"- kind of an unobvious 
failing.

Frankly, in terms of g55 I don't particularly care if it were 
implemented- although I'd rather see it go in a seperate repo along w/ 
the dozen other fixups needed, preferably starting w/ overlays...

~harring