From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:14:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5CC159.1020602@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120311135503.707de3b6@googlemail.com>
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.
>
Would it be feasible to do a pkg_pretend() check and refuse
install/upgrade if packages with unsupported EAPI are detected?
Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-11 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-11 12:01 [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1? Pacho Ramos
2012-03-11 13:28 ` Patrick Lauer
2012-03-11 13:52 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-11 13:54 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-03-11 13:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-11 15:14 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn [this message]
2012-03-11 15:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-11 16:18 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-03-11 16:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-11 16:46 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-03-11 16:52 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-11 19:04 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-11 19:11 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-03-12 0:49 ` Brian Harring
2012-03-13 18:52 ` Zac Medico
2012-03-18 11:17 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-03-15 21:31 ` Maciej Mrozowski
2012-03-11 23:15 ` Francesco Riosa
2012-03-11 14:37 ` Patrick Lauer
2012-03-11 15:02 ` Thomas Sachau
2012-03-12 7:52 ` Pacho Ramos
[not found] <41490c1dd7ca44bcbda73b2032982596@HUBCAS1.cs.stonybrook.edu>
2012-03-11 23:54 ` Richard Yao
2012-03-12 0:15 ` Francesco Riosa
2012-03-12 0:36 ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12 0:23 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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