On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:02:48 +0200
Petteri Räty <betelge...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> It's quite likely that if you are currently on a system with Portage
> that does not understand EAPI 1 there's so many obstacles along the
> upgrade path that a clean install makes more sense. Maybe someone is
> willing to test this so that we actually know if there is an upgrade
> path from EAPI 0 available any more.
One recent example is [1] (which the reporter ended up closing as
WONTFIX himself). In that particular case, $someone could roll out newer
stages based on the current tree. I think he just gave up, which is a
bit of a pity.
jer
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346621
