[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI and system packages

[Ryan Hill]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:55:55 +0400
Alexey Shvetsov <alexxy@g.o> wrote:

> On Воскресенье 20 сентября 2009 11:47:30 Rémi Cardona wrote:
> > Le 20/09/2009 02:31, Ryan Hill a écrit :
> > > If not, when can
> > > we drop support for old EAPIs?  Your opinions please.
> >
> > Let's drop it now. We've waited long enough. Portage with EAPI=2 has
> > been stable for more than a year.
> >
> > Rémi
> >
> Yes its good idea to drop EAPI<2 from tree, but we should provide a way to
> upgrade for people that don't upgrades recently. So we can:
> 1 create a portage snapshot
> 2 write mini how to  about upgrade
> 3 then drop EAPI=0 and EAPI=1 from tree to simplify tree

We're talking about system packages, not the whole tree.  There are 19951
ebuilds that don't declare EAPI and 1705 with EAPI=1 or EAPI="1".  Even
with a policy that all new ebuilds need to be EAPI 2, converting the
entire tree would be several years of work IMO, at which point we'll be
at EAPI zillion+1.


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