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 1S6t4P-0003Ds-CJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:25:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E30CCE09F9; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF1DE0933 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:24:21 +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 0E6F61B404B for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:24:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F5D4218.2080607@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:23:52 +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: <41490c1dd7ca44bcbda73b2032982596@HUBCAS1.cs.stonybrook.edu> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 50a08883-90fa-4bde-a3bf-34ab81d578ce X-Archives-Hash: 6c61a7c5536feaaaa6d1edd24053fdac Richard Yao schrieb: > These must be maintained indefinitely to provide an upgrade path for > older Gentoo Linux installations. It is rare, but people do upgrade > old installs from time to time. Without some EAPI=3D1 packages, there i= s > no path for people to use to upgrade. The clean upgrade path from 2008.0 (still popular with some hosting companies) has already been destroyed with the removal of python-2.6.5-r3 a couple of months ago. It is up to the maintainers whether they want to invest time and energy into the old packages, and usually they don't. And it is indeed questionable whether users who update less than once every 6 months are worth this investment. (I tend to say yes, but that may just be because many come to #gentoo IRC with the resulting problems.) Best regards, Ch=C3=AD-Thanh Christopher Nguy=E1=BB=85n