Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI Changes

[Petteri Räty]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 16 May 2009 02:31:45 +0300
> Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
>>> On the other hand you also have to make sure you have a stable
>>> portage for a time long enough so mostly everyone has it installed.
>>> Otherwise you could break users systems pretty badly depending on
>>> the packages. And Arch-Teams usually do a pretty good job in
>>> catching such cases.
>> How would this breakage happen? The ebuild in the vdb still has the
>> old EAPI.
>
> Portage likes to use metadata from the tree version of things even if
> there's also a version installed. This is a major nuisance, but is
> unfortunately considered a feature.
>

I think the question here is that what Portage does when there's a newer
EAPI in the tree version that Portage does not yet support but there's a
supported version in the vdb.

Regards,
Petteri