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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPIs 1 and 2?
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:27:47
Message-Id: 20110103132700.57d51af2@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPIs 1 and 2? by "Petteri Räty"
1 On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:02:48 +0200
2 Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
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4 > It's quite likely that if you are currently on a system with Portage
5 > that does not understand EAPI 1 there's so many obstacles along the
6 > upgrade path that a clean install makes more sense. Maybe someone is
7 > willing to test this so that we actually know if there is an upgrade
8 > path from EAPI 0 available any more.
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10 One recent example is [1] (which the reporter ended up closing as
11 WONTFIX himself). In that particular case, $someone could roll out newer
12 stages based on the current tree. I think he just gave up, which is a
13 bit of a pity.
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16 jer
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19 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346621