Am Mittwoch, 3. November 2021, 22:39:41 CET schrieb Ulrich Mueller:
> >>>>> On Wed, 03 Nov 2021, Andreas K Huettel wrote:
> 
> > The mistake was to allow the use of EAPI=8 too early. In the future,
> > we should have a new EAPI supported by portage for at least some
> > months before the EAPI is even used in the main tree. Not even
> > speaking about stable here.
> 
> I tend to disagree. Adding an ebuild with a new EAPI cannot break
> anything, because it will simply be invisible to old package managers.

Except that you need to keep track of version dependencies across the whole
tree.

So, yes, this is in principle correct, and in practice with our current
tooling more or less impossible to do reliably.

[Part of the output Whissi pasted was (more or less) that a Perl upgrade
required a rebuild of Perl modules. Unfortunately, even a single one that
is not available for rebuild makes the emerge bail out.]


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Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)