Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:49:10 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>>> As long as there is an agreement in any given point of time, it is >>>> OK. Such as, put your EAPI definition on the first line of your >>>> ebuild, like EAPI="value" >>> No good for package managers written before the agreement. >> Why not force user to upgrade their PM? > > That's a) exactly what we're trying to avoid with EAPIs, b) no good > because there isn't a sane way of forcing a package manager upgrade and > c) another one of those "wait a year until we can use anything" things.
People have to upgrade even if we adopt the suffix approach, as like I just said. We don't actually need to force people upgrade their PM, if they need new version of software whose ebuild is in new EAPI, they will want to upgrade their PM themselves, either way. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
