Rich Freeman schrieb: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn > <chith...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Assume a new version 13.37 of your package manager drops EAPI=1 support. >> So package-manager-13.37.ebuild checks in pkg_pretend() if any EAPI=1 >> package is installed on the system. If yes, then it aborts, telling the >> user to get rid of the package first. >> >> That way, the situation where the package manager does not know how to >> uninstall a package is avoided. > I take it that removing a package without using a package manager is > left as an exercise to the reader?
The user will have to remove the package using his current, EAPI=1 capable package manager. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
