Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2007 03:41:04 Luca Barbato wrote: >> > * We have to wait a year before we can use it. >> >> We have to wait till we got a new release and I hope it isn't 12months. > > And then we have to wait till noone use a version of portage that sources > the ebuild to get the EAPI. Unless we change the file name.. > "We generally make sure that the tree is compatible with portage versions released in the past six months, so if you don't have version released in that timeframe it is possible that you won't be able to use the tree anymore."[1]
What applications are so important that require this change in order to work, that we have to go through the tool modifications now rather than wait a few months and let the newer versions of portage deal with it, without us having to make any changes at all? After all we can use EAPI="1" already, and if the portage team want to put more features in, they're at liberty to define EAPI="2" or any other. It appears this is being rushed through: we can have some undefined new features (well Paludis users can) now, if only we allow unbounded changes to the filename suffix. That's not a good enough reason. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/common-problems.xml -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
