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On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Please keep in mind to *not* use EAPI-6 for base-system packages yet, so
> we can retain a somewhat stable upgrade path even for very old systems.

What's the time frame for lifting that restriction?

There are some key packages that base-system does not maintain, and it
would be good to have a documented guideline for it.

For example, I maintain the dev-lang/python ebuilds, and I will
probably be jumping to EAPI 6 whenever Python 3.6 is released.