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Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Steve Long wrote: |
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>> Is there a cut-off for portage atm wrt versions you do not support? |
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>> I'm wondering at what point you can say we don't support less than 2.1.2. |
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>> It seems odd that a distro which operates like Gentoo would not cut off |
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>> support for old versions in line with the rest of the tree, when binary |
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>> ones do (which is why ubuntu LTS was attractive.) |
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> We don't introduce incompatible changes into the tree until the |
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> required features have been available in the in a stable version of |
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> portage for at least 1 year. The purpose of EAPI is to minimize the |
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> impact of incompatible changes so that we can start using new |
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> extensions as soon as possible. See |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~genone/docs/treedeps.txt for more ideas |
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> (Marius already mentioned this earlier in the thread). |
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Yeah, I looked at that before, but it went straight over my head. Looking at |
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it again, it seems like option A combined with a virtual/pkgmanager |
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(version could be EAPI since EAPI 1 features are apparently needed now) |
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would be the easiest and would have no cons? |
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