>>>>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Peter Alfredsen wrote: >> No, an EAPI bump is necessary. Older (post-EAPI) Portage versions >> do something different, so any ebuild relying upon particular >> behaviour is already broken.
> For an example of this, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/264308 I would say that is a secondary problem, caused by the package manager not preserving mtimes, and the eclass trying to work around it. Ulrich
