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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is removing old EAPIs worth the churn?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:12:02
Message-Id: CAEdQ38G-ygKhwROZKNKVYxrhF0RGpyQUWLgHPSgW+ngP3Dj8Uw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is removing old EAPIs worth the churn? by Kent Fredric
1 On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:56 PM, Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 17:52:54 -0800
3 > And with Perl packages at least, incrementing EAPI results in actual
4 > changes driven by the eclass:
5 >
6 > - Changes the names of various control variables
7 > - Makes perl tests on by default, and parallel by default ( previously
8 > required opt-in )
9 > - Disables the legacy code path that kills the '.packlist' files, which
10 > are actually useful to some tools, and was the wrong place to kill
11 > those files in the first place.
12
13 Sounds like you're not bumping EAPI for its own sake.