>>>>> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, heroxbd wrote: > I am revisiting this topic based on previous discussions[1,2,3].
> There seems to be a constant need for toolchain with a new EAPI. The > only block is "how can we upgrade from an ancient system?", "don't > bump or the upgrade path will be break". Let's figure out a solid > upgrade path consciously, with a test farm of ancient systems, and > then bump the EAPI of toolchain. The upgrade path is not at all what is blocking this. In its 20130409 meeting, the council has (unanimously) decided: "EAPIs 0 to 2 are no longer required for the upgrade path of users' systems." The reason why toolchain packages are still at EAPI 0 was explained in this posting: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2369/focus=2377 AFAICS, changing that is entirely the task of the toolchain team. Ulrich
