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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 20:34:04
Message-Id: 201608242233.43795.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care by Lars Wendler
1 Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2016, 16:05:05 schrieb Lars Wendler:
2 >
3 > Oh, and to all new team members:
4 > Please keep in mind to *not* use EAPI-6 for base-system packages yet, so
5 > we can retain a somewhat stable upgrade path even for very old systems.
6 >
7
8 That won't help anyone with upgrading.
9
10 Large parts of Perl are already EAPI=6.
11
12 Such an old portage will not see these ebuilds and therefore think that 2/3 of
13 all Perl packages have been removed from the tree, with corresponding
14 hilarity.
15
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18 Andreas K. Huettel
19 Gentoo Linux developer
20 dilfridge@g.o
21 http://www.akhuettel.de/