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On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:32:12 +0200
"Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o> wrote:
> On behalf of the Lisp project (which includes the Emacs subproject)
> I'd like to propose that preservation of mtimes be included as a
> requirement of EAPI3.

If you want mtime preservation mandated, someone needs to come up with
a fix for all those packages that end up dumping duff mtimes on the
system... There's progress towards that on the bug, but it's not there
yet.

> An EAPI bump may not be really necessary for this - after all we're
> just specifying previously unspecified behavior - but it will help
> Paludis.

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

- -- 
Ciaran McCreesh
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