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From: Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:12:21
Message-Id: 564C5D05.4080805@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out! by Ulrich Mueller
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4 On 18/11/15 12:05, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
5 > Only that there is no real difference to the existing situation
6 > when mixing stable and unstable. It is not guaranteed that all
7 > dependencies of an unstable package are stable, so already now
8 > users may have to accept the ~ keyword for dependencies in some
9 > cases. Similarly, such users may have to accept EAPI 6 for some
10 > dependencies, which implies that they install a package manager
11 > supporting EAPI 6.
12 There's a difference between some packages being troublesome, and
13 encouraging everyone to rewrite their eclasses and ebuilds, if the end
14 result is a huge portion of ebuilds causing headaches.
15
16 > And on what basis would you stabilise Portage, when there are no
17 > ebuilds in the tree to test its EAPI 6 code?
18 When I do QA in projects I'm involved with (at least outside of
19 Gentoo), we don't do it live on end-user systems. I'll leave the
20 details as an exercise for the Gentoo developer.
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22 > If we had followed this argument in the past, we would be at EAPI
23 > 0 still.
24 Reaching.
25 - --
26 Alexander
27 bernalex@g.o
28 https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out! Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out! Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out! "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>