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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-04-09
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:02:15
Message-Id: 515BB7D1.4020509@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-04-09 by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On 04/02/2013 03:37 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
2 > On 4/2/13 7:25 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
3 >> We already "encourage" using the newest EAPI, see 20110308 meeting.
4 >> (Though I fail to find this recommendation in the devmanual, shouldn't
5 >> it be there?)
6 >>
7 >> Should we have a stricter rule? Would such a rule help significantly
8 >> reducing the number of EAPI 0 ebuilds?
9 >
10 > Rules do not make things happen, especially not in a situation like here.
11 >
12 > Known problems:
13 > - EAPI-0 used to provide an upgrade path (for system packages)
14
15 This only makes sense as long as we have profiles supporting the
16 relevant EAPI. Do we still have any EAPI 0 profiles that are relevant?
17 In profiles/releases/10.0/eapi we have EAPI 2. So, perhaps those system
18 packages could be using EAPI 2 as well.
19 --
20 Thanks,
21 Zac