Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

[Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>]

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On 17/11/15 05:45 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 11/17/2015 05:09 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>> Fellow Developers!
>> 
>> I have the pleasure to announce that portage-2.2.25 has just
>> been committed and it comes with complete EAPI 6 support. This
>> effectively means that from this moment forward Gentoo
>> developers are permitted to commit EAPI 6 ebuilds to ~arch.
>> 
> 
> Thanks for all the work on this and the guide.
> 
> Is it really safe to start committing ~arch ebuilds that don't
> work with stable portage? Might not things get wonky for stable
> users who have a few keyworded packages?
> 
> For developers, is my stable version of repoman smart enough to
> make sure I don't break any dependencies in this way?
> 
> 

If your PM doesn't support EAPI6, then those ebuilds will be ignored
just as if they do not exist.  It is plenty safe.  There can be
issues if EAPI5 or older ~arch packages start -needing- EAPI6-only
~arch dependencies, but so long as people are careful (and likely,
start bumping to EAPI6 along with the dependencies) then things will
work out without much incident.


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