On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:12:42 +0200 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > On 8/15/15 3:16 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > Secondly, though, conversion to EAPI5 is not actually trivial, there > > are a couple of things, 'usex' related for instance, that also need > > to be taken care of. If it was just a matter of running a sed -e > > 's/^EAPI=4/EAPI=5/' on all in-tree ebuilds this would have been done > > a long time ago. > > Do you mean that it would break things or just while technically working > the ebuilds mass converted in this way would not take advantage of EAPI5 > features such use 'usex'?
Another issue: EAPI change normally requires revision bump. Revision bump for stable packages will require stabilization request in most cases (e.g. if all current stable versions are <EAPI 5). Stabilization request often take ages. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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