From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S6oC9-0007nT-NS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:12:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33717E0830; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:12:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF6BE07EB for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:11:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (hnvr-4dbd5126.pool.mediaWays.net [77.189.81.38]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: chithanh) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 682091B4033 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:11:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F5CF8C8.8020606@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:11:04 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2jDrS1UaGFuaCBDaHJpc3RvcGhlciBOZ3V54buFbg==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120309 Firefox/10.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.7.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1? References: <1331467306.11661.2.camel@belkin4> <4F5CA874.6070209@gentoo.org> <20120311135503.707de3b6@googlemail.com> <4F5CC159.1020602@gentoo.org> <20120311154935.1182cf69@googlemail.com> <4F5CD065.2030307@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fea809f6-b9bc-490e-b13c-1b1ba214e207 X-Archives-Hash: 6e630fdec4d1b7248e8ff928cd2c4324 Rich Freeman schrieb: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Ch=C3=AD-Thanh Christopher Nguy=E1=BB= =85n > wrote: >> Assume a new version 13.37 of your package manager drops EAPI=3D1 supp= ort. >> So package-manager-13.37.ebuild checks in pkg_pretend() if any EAPI=3D= 1 >> package is installed on the system. If yes, then it aborts, telling th= e >> user to get rid of the package first. >> >> That way, the situation where the package manager does not know how to >> uninstall a package is avoided. > I take it that removing a package without using a package manager is > left as an exercise to the reader? The user will have to remove the package using his current, EAPI=3D1 capable package manager. Best regards, Ch=C3=AD-Thanh Christopher Nguy=E1=BB=85n