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On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:56:03 -0800 |
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Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> Every software product has an end of life. I think if a system hasn't |
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> been updated in the last 2 years or so, then it's fair to assume that |
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> it will never be updated. So, all relevant versions of portage should |
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> simply show a warning message if the encounter an ebuild name such as |
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> "app-foo/bar-1.0.0-r1-e99.ebuild". |
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It's worth noting that "showing a warning message" will result in |
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zillions of freaking out users, and that we want to be able to |
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introduce new EAPIs without having a stable Portage version that |
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handles it around. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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