[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: EAPI 6

[Zac Medico]

On 3/14/20 1:40 PM, Samuel Bernardo wrote:
> Thank you very much Zac for your answers.
>
> I was wondering if I was missing any coding convention after reading
> [1], since I always follow the pattern to define eclasses inside my
> overlays as needed, sometimes overriding those provided from gentoo
> portage. I was not sure if I was doing the development breaking the
> expected QA rules.
>
> With your explanation I know now that I'm doing it the right way.
>
> [1]
> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/appendices/common-problems/index.html#qa-notice----eclass-foo-inherited-illegally

The stale cache issues that are mentioned there only applied to the
'pms' cache format which should not be used since around 2012/2013 when
we changed the default for the metadata/layout.conf cache-formats
setting here:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=e760c8d2a4ccc56e351ac37904c715f596b58e42
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Thanks,
Zac