2012/3/11 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com>: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:52:40 -0400 > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Is there really much of a benefit to this? I guess for anybody who >> runs scripts to mass-manipulate ebuilds it might be helpful, but I >> think all the package managers planned on supporting all the EAPIs for >> quite a while longer. > > We have to support them indefinitely. It's not possible to uninstall a > package whose EAPI is unknown.
probably not needed in practice, some random toughts follow. upgrade a gentoo system older than three years is nearly impossible, even update small part of it can be a major problem. Solution being install from scratch in a new partition or overwrite with a stage 3 and abuse "qfile -o". Hopefully situation will change in the future, and we will able to eix-sync and upgrade all of gentoo or only part of it. At the moment tough the ability to ununstall a package from year 2008/2009 is moot, the system is screwed anyway. except for the possible existance of packages which have not been updated in 3/4 years (do they exist?) it's possible for all package mangler (tm) to consider pre 2009 stuff as forgotten. regards, Francesco
