These must be maintained indefinitely to provide an upgrade path for older Gentoo Linux installations. It is rare, but people do upgrade old installs from time to time. Without some EAPI=1 packages, there is no path for people to use to upgrade.
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > After reading previous discussion: > http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/gentoo-dev-Deprecate-EAPIs--ftopict530567.html > > Looks like preventing NEW commits from using eapi1 (via repoman) could > be done without major issues. This could even being done also for eapi2 > as it's close enough to eapi3, but I don't have a strong opinion about > eapi2 deprecation (personally, I try to always use latest eapi if eclass > allows me to do so). > > Any thoughts on this? > > Thanks
