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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1?
From: Francesco Riosa <vivo75@gmail.com>
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2012/3/11 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:52:40 -0400
> Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Is there really much of a benefit to this? =A0I 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.

probably not needed in practice, some random toughts follow.

upgrade a gentoo system older than three years is nearly impossible,
even update small part of it can be a major problem. Solution being
install from scratch in a new partition or overwrite with a stage 3
and abuse "qfile -o".

Hopefully situation will change in the future, and we will able to
eix-sync and upgrade all of gentoo or only part of it.

At the moment tough the ability to ununstall a package from year
2008/2009 is moot, the system is screwed anyway.

except for the possible existance of packages which have not been
updated in 3/4 years (do they exist?) it's possible for all package
mangler (tm) to consider pre 2009 stuff as forgotten.

regards,
Francesco