Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > in its last session the Gentoo council decided that 30 days from now the > > entire profile tree will be updated to require EAPI=5 support. .. > > If you are running an installation that has not been updated for more than > > a > > year, you have to update your portage version to current stable now, and > > afterwards switch to a non-deprecated profile. > > I am 100% behind this idea and the council's decision, HOWEVER, I feel > the most responsible way to transition would be to include a nice > compressed "just before switch" portage snapshot. A news item could be > drafted, that is shown to all users of portage versions which do not > support eapi5 which directs them to the snapshot which they may need to > use to successfully upgrade their systems. > > I see exactly zero downside to doing this, so if whoever is going to > actually do the editing of the profiles would like to work with me (to > give me warning), I think I can manage the rest.
Excellent idea, and I'd just like to say "thanks muchly" on behalf of some of those future users (i see a few of them from time to time, using update, and this will make it much easier to support them, so on my own behalf too.) Regards, steveL -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)
