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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/3] xorg-2.eclass: Add EAPI=7 support
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:55:44
Message-Id: 20190222135523.191a7d3837d6b5ccba505681@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 3/3] xorg-2.eclass: Add EAPI=7 support by Matt Turner
1 On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:46:23 -0800 Matt Turner wrote:
2 > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:24 PM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > >>>>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, Matt Turner wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > Nearly all the work is just removing uses of autotools-multilib and
7 > > > autotools-utils. The new code should work in EAPI 4 and 5. Don't add
8 > > > support for EAPI 6; that ship has already sailed.
9 > >
10 > > AFAICS, adding EAPI 6 support wouldn't require any additional code?
11 >
12 > I think that is true. (I have no strong preference on whether to add
13 > EAPI 6 support. I just figured that anything that gets an EAPI bump
14 > now should go to the latest available)
15
16 This is not always possible. E.g. I have a package with optional
17 java support. Since java is still EAPI 6 I can't use EAPI 7.
18
19 Best regards,
20 Andrew Savchenko