Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-12 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 16:38 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > It's my understanding that higher EAPI levels include more features. > How backwards compatable are the EAPI levels? I.e. assume that we take > an ebuild with EAPI 0, and slap in EAPI=1 (or 2 or 3, etc) at the top, > without any other chang

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-12 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/10/12 04:38 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:53:15PM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote >> From time to time the topic of deprecating EAPIs comes up and >> usually one suggestion is to keep 0 and start with converting >> EAPI 1 eb

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:38:06 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:53:15PM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote > > From time to time the topic of deprecating EAPIs comes up and > > usually one suggestion is to keep 0 and start with converting EAPI > > 1 ebuilds. Then someone comes alon

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:53:15PM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote > From time to time the topic of deprecating EAPIs comes up and usually > one suggestion is to keep 0 and start with converting EAPI 1 ebuilds. > Then someone comes along and asks what is the point? Indeed, a fair > question. It's

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-12 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
From time to time the topic of deprecating EAPIs comes up and usually one suggestion is to keep 0 and start with converting EAPI 1 ebuilds. Then someone comes along and asks what is the point? Indeed, a fair question. The following tries to take a different approach to the topic. It's not all thou