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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ban EAPI 1
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:33:52
Message-Id: 21881.47200.543154.708277@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ban EAPI 1 by Alexis Ballier
1 >>>>> On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Alexis Ballier wrote:
2
3 >> dev-lang/ocaml-3.12.1 in slot
4
5 > in subslot not slot, but more importantly in stable
6
7 Right, there are newer ebuilds in slot 0 for dev-lang/ocaml. I've
8 double-checked the list now; for all other packages the "in slot" was
9 accurate.
10
11 >> Maintainers can still use --force if there is no other way.
12
13 > i'm definitely not convinced it is good practice to encourage people
14 > to do that ;)
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16 People are strongly encouraged to update their ebuilds to a newer
17 EAPI. ;) There are few EAPI 1 ebuilds left and the point is to prevent
18 adding new ones accidentally.
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20 > also, it seems eapis-banned is not just about new ebuilds but also
21 > when there happens to be an ancient ebuild in the same directory
22
23 Yes, and that repoman behaves this way is the very reason why EAPIs
24 1 and 2 haven't been banned already one year ago. After all, this was
25 a council decision:
26 https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20140225.txt
27
28 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ban EAPI 1 Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>