Zac Medico wrote: > Steve Long wrote: >> Is there a cut-off for portage atm wrt versions you do not support? >> >> I'm wondering at what point you can say we don't support less than 2.1.2. >> It seems odd that a distro which operates like Gentoo would not cut off >> support for old versions in line with the rest of the tree, when binary >> ones do (which is why ubuntu LTS was attractive.) > > We don't introduce incompatible changes into the tree until the > required features have been available in the in a stable version of > portage for at least 1 year. The purpose of EAPI is to minimize the > impact of incompatible changes so that we can start using new > extensions as soon as possible. See > http://dev.gentoo.org/~genone/docs/treedeps.txt for more ideas > (Marius already mentioned this earlier in the thread). > Yeah, I looked at that before, but it went straight over my head. Looking at it again, it seems like option A combined with a virtual/pkgmanager (version could be EAPI since EAPI 1 features are apparently needed now) would be the easiest and would have no cons?
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