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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Making backwards-incompatible tree changes | a solution for GLEP 55's problem
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:07:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110920110744.GB6252@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110920114013.5c2b69dc@googlemail.com>

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:40:13AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:28:48 -0700
> Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Paludis wise, it's eapi2 indirictely due to boost and eselect.  
> > Looking at the eapi depgraph for that, doesn't look particularly 
> > viable for upgrading from a EAPI<2 manager for paludis.  I'll leave 
> > it to Ciaran to comment on the feasability of a static rescue 
> > binary (or extremely simplified upgrade pathway).
> 
> boost's just for Python bindings, which are optional. The eselect
> dependency is hard, and can't easily be made optional, so ideally
> eselect should stick with older EAPIs.

Bit more than just that, going by a quick look.  libpcre is 3/4; 
looks like an old version is intentionally held back.  pkgconfig is 
the same- 0.25-r2 is EAPI2, everything else is EAPI4.

You didn't answer the static question btw...
~brian



  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-20 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-19 22:14 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Making backwards-incompatible tree changes | a solution for GLEP 55's problem Alex Alexander
2011-09-19 22:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-09-20  0:46   ` Rich Freeman
2011-09-20  1:44     ` Duncan
2011-09-20  7:12     ` Alex Alexander
2011-09-20 10:43       ` Patrick Lauer
2011-09-20 10:28     ` Brian Harring
2011-09-20 10:40       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-20 11:07         ` Brian Harring [this message]
2011-09-20 11:27           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-09-20 13:33         ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-09-20 10:50       ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2011-09-20  6:56   ` Alex Alexander
2011-09-20 13:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Pacho Ramos
2011-09-20 13:16   ` Pacho Ramos
2011-09-20 13:16   ` Michał Górny
2011-09-20 13:25     ` Pacho Ramos
2011-09-20 13:57   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-09-20 14:23     ` Pacho Ramos
2011-09-20 17:00   ` [gentoo-dev] " Patrick Lauer
2011-09-21  4:00     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-09-21 13:24       ` Pacho Ramos
2011-09-20 15:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Zac Medico
2011-09-20 15:28   ` Zac Medico
2011-09-20 17:03   ` Patrick Lauer
2011-09-20 17:14     ` Rich Freeman
2011-09-20 17:48       ` Alec Warner
2011-09-20 20:03         ` Michał Górny

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