On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:32:55 -0400 Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Lars Wendler > <polynomia...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Please keep in mind to *not* use EAPI-6 for base-system packages > > yet, so we can retain a somewhat stable upgrade path even for very > > old systems. > > What's the time frame for lifting that restriction? > > There are some key packages that base-system does not maintain, and it > would be good to have a documented guideline for it. > > For example, I maintain the dev-lang/python ebuilds, and I will > probably be jumping to EAPI 6 whenever Python 3.6 is released. If you only update python 3.6, I think eapi6 will be long accepted when that'll be the only available version or even the default :)
