From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 22:33:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201608242233.43795.dilfridge@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160824160505.3d07b9d6@abudhabi.paradoxon.rec>
Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2016, 16:05:05 schrieb Lars Wendler:
>
> Oh, and to all new team members:
> Please keep in mind to *not* use EAPI-6 for base-system packages yet, so
> we can retain a somewhat stable upgrade path even for very old systems.
>
That won't help anyone with upgrading.
Large parts of Perl are already EAPI=6.
Such an old portage will not see these ebuilds and therefore think that 2/3 of
all Perl packages have been removed from the tree, with corresponding
hilarity.
--
Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-24 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-23 23:17 [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care Robin H. Johnson
2016-08-23 23:36 ` Anthony G. Basile
2016-08-24 0:03 ` Lars Wendler
2016-08-24 0:08 ` Anthony G. Basile
2016-08-24 1:06 ` Benda Xu
2016-08-24 14:05 ` Lars Wendler
2016-08-24 14:08 ` Pacho Ramos
2016-08-24 14:42 ` Upgrading Old Gentoo - Was " M. J. Everitt
2016-08-29 17:18 ` Joshua Kinard
2016-08-24 15:32 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-08-24 15:49 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-25 8:00 ` Alexis Ballier
2016-08-24 17:17 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-24 20:33 ` Andreas K. Huettel [this message]
2016-08-24 1:11 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-24 17:24 ` Robin H. Johnson
2016-08-24 1:25 ` Patrick McLean
2016-08-24 12:04 ` Jason Zaman
2016-08-24 15:37 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-08-25 8:01 ` Alexis Ballier
2016-08-28 6:34 ` Daniel Campbell
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