Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Tightening EAPI rules

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:16:42 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > From my limited look at the code I've done so far in the small bit
> > of repoman work on the Portage team, as detailed in another mail I
> > just sent to you on this ML, I wouldn't consider it as a problem
> > just now.
> > 
> > We for example have /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/eapi.py to easily
> > deal with it, it's just that such checks would drop in that file and
> > across the Portage source code when the versions listed in those
> > checks are no longer used. It's currently reasonable to have this
> > amount of checks, but imagine it growing to what you would need for
> > 10 versions; that'd be a different story, but perhaps it is too
> > early to wonder about this now.
> 
> Removing EAPIs doesn't help you: you still need to be able to
> uninstall things.

There aren't much checks left if you only need to cover that.

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