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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated & ban
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 07:06:59
Message-Id: 21966.58632.509101.72703@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated & ban by "Paweł Hajdan
1 >>>>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, Paweł Hajdan, wrote:
2
3 > Nothing seems to prevent doing the mass conversion first,
4 > deprecating EAPI 4, and then having a second, slower pass to make
5 > sure the ebuilds are using EAPI 5 as they should be. One way might
6 > be to add a "TODO" comment during mass conversion, which then can be
7 > grepped for (and removed after manual review).
8
9 How about a line like "EAPI=4" which can be grepped for? :)
10 Seriously, what would be the benefit of a conversion if you need a
11 second pass to redo it properly?
12
13 Also there are still some 5000 ebuilds (14 %) with EAPIs 0, 1, 2, and
14 3 in the tree. IMHO it would be better to spend our effort in updating
15 those first.
16
17 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated & ban "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>