On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 07:40 -0400, Thomas Anderson wrote:
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> The difference is that putting the EAPI in the filename has backwards
> compatibility because package managers not knowing about this change
> won't even look at the those ebuilds. Putting EAPI as the fifth line
> completely loses this, so as far as backwards compatibility goes putting
> EAPI 55 in the filename really is the cleanest.

That's not very hard to overcome without polluting the file name, as
I've already pointed out.

-- Arun