>>>>> On Wed, 03 Nov 2021, Andreas K Huettel wrote:

> The mistake was to allow the use of EAPI=8 too early. In the future,
> we should have a new EAPI supported by portage for at least some
> months before the EAPI is even used in the main tree. Not even
> speaking about stable here.

I tend to disagree. Adding an ebuild with a new EAPI cannot break
anything, because it will simply be invisible to old package managers.

There won't be a problem unless you _remove_ ebuilds that are part of
the upgrade path.

Ulrich

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