On Saturday 21 March 2009 21:21:47 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:37:12 +0100 > > Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > To make our lives easier I would suggest deprecating EAPI0 and > > migrating existing ebuilds over some time to EAPI1 or higher until > > EAPI0 can be obsoleted at some point in the future. > > Uh. Why? Because, as you have noticed before, developers get confused which eapi has which features available. And eapi1 is a superset of eapi0, so we don't have to rewrite tons of things.
> Introducing a policy encouraging moving things that definitely aren't > in the least bit likely to be a system dep on a bump, sure. Making 1 or > 2 the default for new packages, sure. But rewriting existing things? > That's just an accident waiting to happen. What kind of accident do you expect to happen? Patrick
