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2012/3/11 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>: |
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> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:52:40 -0400 |
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> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Is there really much of a benefit to this? I guess for anybody who |
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>> runs scripts to mass-manipulate ebuilds it might be helpful, but I |
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>> think all the package managers planned on supporting all the EAPIs for |
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>> quite a while longer. |
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> We have to support them indefinitely. It's not possible to uninstall a |
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> package whose EAPI is unknown. |
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probably not needed in practice, some random toughts follow. |
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upgrade a gentoo system older than three years is nearly impossible, |
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even update small part of it can be a major problem. Solution being |
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install from scratch in a new partition or overwrite with a stage 3 |
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and abuse "qfile -o". |
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Hopefully situation will change in the future, and we will able to |
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eix-sync and upgrade all of gentoo or only part of it. |
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At the moment tough the ability to ununstall a package from year |
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2008/2009 is moot, the system is screwed anyway. |
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except for the possible existance of packages which have not been |
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updated in 3/4 years (do they exist?) it's possible for all package |
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mangler (tm) to consider pre 2009 stuff as forgotten. |
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regards, |
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Francesco |
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