On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:58:23 +0100 Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:41:13 -0500 > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> > > wrote: > > > Well, that package maintainers are called developers on Gentoo > > > isn't helping the interpretation here; regardless of how one > > > defines those, both maintainers and PM implementers have to be > > > taken into account here. > > > > > > From quick thoughts the latter are a bit more affected than the > > > former, but perhaps Patrick can highlight what he sees as a > > > burden. > > > > You would think, but the reason I raised the question was that > > historically every time this has come up the package manager > > maintainers usually chime in and say that they don't consider it a > > problem. I want to do whatever I can to make them happy since we > > are so desperately in need of more of them, but... > > From my limited look at the code I've done so far in the small bit of > repoman work on the Portage team, as detailed in another mail I just > sent to you on this ML, I wouldn't consider it as a problem just now. > > We for example have /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/eapi.py to easily > deal with it, it's just that such checks would drop in that file and > across the Portage source code when the versions listed in those > checks are no longer used. It's currently reasonable to have this > amount of checks, but imagine it growing to what you would need for > 10 versions; that'd be a different story, but perhaps it is too early > to wonder about this now.
Removing EAPIs doesn't help you: you still need to be able to uninstall things. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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