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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:51:24
Message-Id: 20120311154935.1182cf69@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1? by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
1 On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:14:33 +0100
2 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o> wrote:
3 > Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
4 > >> Is there really much of a benefit to this? I guess for anybody who
5 > >> runs scripts to mass-manipulate ebuilds it might be helpful, but I
6 > >> think all the package managers planned on supporting all the EAPIs
7 > >> for quite a while longer.
8 > > We have to support them indefinitely. It's not possible to
9 > > uninstall a package whose EAPI is unknown.
10 > >
11 >
12 > Would it be feasible to do a pkg_pretend() check and refuse
13 > install/upgrade if packages with unsupported EAPI are detected?
14
15 Uhm. I think your question doesn't make any sense, but maybe I'm just
16 not understanding it. Rephrase please.
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh

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