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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:49:35 +0000
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1?
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:14:33 +0100
Ch=C3=AD-Thanh Christopher Nguy=E1=BB=85n <chithanh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
> >> Is there really much of a benefit to this?  I guess for anybody who
> >> runs scripts to mass-manipulate ebuilds it might be helpful, but I
> >> think all the package managers planned on supporting all the EAPIs
> >> for quite a while longer.
> > We have to support them indefinitely. It's not possible to
> > uninstall a package whose EAPI is unknown.
> >
>=20
> Would it be feasible to do a pkg_pretend() check and refuse
> install/upgrade if packages with unsupported EAPI  are detected?

Uhm. I think your question doesn't make any sense, but maybe I'm just
not understanding it. Rephrase please.

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