On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 12:44 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Ciaran's right on this one.  It may have been a bug in portage, now 
> fixed, but at least until a stable current release media set, a working 
> PMS can't change the EAPI-0 definition to fail with portage on the old 
> release media, however stale it might be.  If a current release happens 
> before PMS EAPI-0 finalization, this could possibly be subject to debate, 
> but until then, it just doesn't work, however much we might wish it could.

No, he isn't.  For one, we're talking make.conf, not the profiles.
Second, there's a newer official (and stable) media set.  Sorry if you
don't like the "beta" moniker, which applies to the media set.  After
all, does a package suddenly become less stable because it is included
in a tarball that has "beta" in the *FILE NAME* ?  I don't think so.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Games Developer

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