David Leverton wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2008 04:29:34 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> Why not use EAPI=1 for those ebuilds and turn the flag on by default? > > Well, as I said, it seems more sensible to me to set the default once, > instead > of once for each ebuild. I don't particularly care, though, just making > sure people know why it was there in the first place, and if they still > want to change it, so be it.
I concur, it is more sensible. Dunno how you get round the maintenance issue, apart from scripts around the time someone leaves or sth. Maybe "if they're all/substantively from an eclass, it definitely must not be in a profile" would be a good policy.