commit:     1fa044467282982563c2cf42c9918b8f4d03d58b
Author:     Matt Turner <mattst88 <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Thu May 14 02:10:40 2020 +0000
Commit:     Matt Turner <mattst88 <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Fri May 15 00:53:50 2020 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/catalyst.git/commit/?id=1fa04446

doc: Drop pre-EAPI-5 text

There are very few EAPI < 5 ebuilds left.

Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 <AT> gentoo.org>

 doc/catalyst-config.5.txt | 30 +-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/catalyst-config.5.txt b/doc/catalyst-config.5.txt
index 4fe1af8c..f17944b2 100644
--- a/doc/catalyst-config.5.txt
+++ b/doc/catalyst-config.5.txt
@@ -168,22 +168,7 @@ This section is only important if you are using binary 
packages to
 build your stages (by enabling the `pkgcache` option and restarting
 incomplete builds).
 
-Before EAPI-5 introduced ABI sub-slots, the build-time compatibility
-of packages was not recorded.  This leads to problems such as binary
-GCC packages built against mpc-0.8.2 (which installs libmpc.so.2)
-being installed on systems that only have mpc-1.0.1 (which installs
-libmpc.so.3), resulting in:
-
----------------------------------
-/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/cc1:
-  error while loading shared libraries: libmpc.so.2:
-  cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
----------------------------------
-
-As long as there are packages in your stage that don't use ABI
-sub-slots, you may experience errors like this due to untracked ABI
-missmatches in binary packages.  Packages generated by catalyst builds
-are currently namespaced:
+Packages generated by catalyst builds are namespaced:
 
 If versioned_cache is set:
 ---------------------------------
@@ -194,19 +179,6 @@ Otherwise:
 .../packages/<rel_type>/<target>-<subarch>/Packages
 ---------------------------------
 
-so running into these out-of-date packages is unlikely.  You may run
-into problems if:
-
-* you enable `update_seed` in your stage1 spec after a previous run
-  which generated packages linking against out-of-date seed libraries
-  or
-* you update your snapshot and an untracked ABI dependency is bumped
-  without a similar bump in the dependent package.
-
-without also bumping any of the package namespace variables in your
-spec.  If you do make such a change, it's a good idea to clear the
-package cache in question and rebuild the packages from scratch.
-
 
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