On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:53:16 +0100
Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Because, as you have noticed before, developers get confused which
> eapi has which features available. And eapi1 is a superset of eapi0,
> so we don't have to rewrite tons of things. 

So? When people do new things, they can move the EAPI forward. That's
not a reason to modify existing things.

> > Introducing a policy encouraging moving things that definitely
> > aren't in the least bit likely to be a system dep on a bump, sure.
> > Making 1 or 2 the default for new packages, sure. But rewriting
> > existing things? That's just an accident waiting to happen.
>
> What kind of accident do you expect to happen?

The same kind that always happens when lots of ebuilds get changed.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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