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 1S6o5E-0005sl-SE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:05:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1CC5E098F; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FA8E0962 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:04:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so2506634bkw.40 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:04:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=5OvW3ZMcctojUFKeDN/rfZpGgy6nfKkXLaGFpVvvpPg=; b=Ac1QphTQy3+v84+bj27eDZuO+TJjhQEVWBjIPnUp728FZVK2I9lZn4CIxqdiAIYpKB UW3pNv8m34K/CleyCy4Rwtm51WbtLnuCxHMYLo89tJIfEAFkDZ//WbH9ZjS0NliHGtv4 3q26Tkr5si6Q4GeHL3zG3xCMA7qi6xANV4q/fDNgQ5cmsg+YpKXIAZ6MscZZFWT0uNva ty5bCpEDh5ODH94LGRELOMoF+ZnklK4ygPaV6UkX2eE/26LojG3m4pEU4E/GHBgC6J8S GunX23dUNb+2cEdd66WnuXIz1k9eIfU4OccRAA85AQMTwpB/y49vvVbD5CVm3otSWGFM tUnw== 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 10.205.132.71 with SMTP id ht7mr3781840bkc.19.1331492647385; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:04:07 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.205.32.194 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:04:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F5CD065.2030307@gentoo.org> 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> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:04:07 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1vDmd-Z2O4PeIWttqCQaeE7NcZY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1? From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 738b5e7c-b879-47a2-b83f-d38ce879f6ac X-Archives-Hash: d11dad0e62f9b76f2b9c1bace5d0f813 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 support= . > So package-manager-13.37.ebuild checks in pkg_pretend() if any EAPI=3D1 > package is installed on the system. If yes, then it aborts, telling the > 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? Rich