From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 07D8F1382C5 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 22:12:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72BAEE09E9; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 22:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E0BDE09DE for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 22:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io0-f178.google.com (mail-io0-f178.google.com [209.85.223.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 181DE335C0C for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 22:11:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io0-f178.google.com with SMTP id e30so744777ioc.3 for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:11:55 -0800 (PST) X-Gm-Message-State: AElRT7Hz4kb982d7IqJNk+Sj+1O8UfJBy4wPRUpYIZp9mGCsk3zWz2gq FL/dOIdYwotaACRR26Q7T2sFvYCs1AZUJCYrGdg= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELtc6UVuA2vpdZCYMct8zBgyaOch1B9I17diuxynvrjcih2tX2WJ9kJ5IAGrOpoL2FLdRs75J/fw0e2yfNp6a+s= X-Received: by 10.107.179.197 with SMTP id c188mr24602693iof.147.1520374313314; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 14:11:53 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.2.168.15 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:11:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20180306185613.5a1bde59@katipo2.lan> References: <20180306185613.5a1bde59@katipo2.lan> From: Matt Turner Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:11:32 -0800 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is removing old EAPIs worth the churn? To: gentoo development Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 4bd25076-b6c9-4778-a6c6-d428281a9938 X-Archives-Hash: 866b107ddfe6d859c69e7cb2fbad857a On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:56 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 17:52:54 -0800 > And with Perl packages at least, incrementing EAPI results in actual > changes driven by the eclass: > > - Changes the names of various control variables > - Makes perl tests on by default, and parallel by default ( previously > required opt-in ) > - Disables the legacy code path that kills the '.packlist' files, which > are actually useful to some tools, and was the wrong place to kill > those files in the first place. Sounds like you're not bumping EAPI for its own sake.