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On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 18:53 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote: |
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> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 03:28:04PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> > If you can't get the people maintaining the ebuilds in gentoo-x86 to |
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> > cooperate with migration to EAPI 5, then I think your best option is |
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> > to start an eapi-5 overlay which contains EAPI 5 ports of those |
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> > ebuilds. |
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> Good idea. I'll look into that after I hit a wall on sub-slotting |
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> udev [1]. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Trevor |
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> [1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466162 |
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I think it should be the other way around. |
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If they still insist them needing to be EAPI=0 for upgrade capability |
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for old systems. Then the EAPI=0 ebuilds should be put in a |
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Legacy-upgrade overlay. |
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If udev is troublesome, then try eudev. You might even be able to get |
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the devs working on it to make it EAPI 5. |
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