2009/2/24 Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org>

> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 22:19 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:15:25 -0600
> > Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > Can we ban eclasses from setting EAPI?  Is there any case where it
> > > would be sane?
> >
> > It's already banned from a QA perspective, but from a package manager
> > perspective people have done it in the past and possibly still do do
> > it, and the spec doesn't forbid it.
> >
>
> For what it's worth, no eclass in the gentoo-x86/eclass tree sets EAPI.
> I don't know about anyplace else.
>
> Regards,
> Ferris
> --
> Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees)
>
lucene-contrib eclass in java-experimental [1] sets EAPI to 1 to use slot
deps. And I think that's a valid usage.

1:
http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/browser/java-experimental/eclass/lucene-contrib.eclass