Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 2009 02:31:45 +0300 > Petteri Räty <betelge...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> On the other hand you also have to make sure you have a stable >>> portage for a time long enough so mostly everyone has it installed. >>> Otherwise you could break users systems pretty badly depending on >>> the packages. And Arch-Teams usually do a pretty good job in >>> catching such cases. >> How would this breakage happen? The ebuild in the vdb still has the >> old EAPI. > > Portage likes to use metadata from the tree version of things even if > there's also a version installed. This is a major nuisance, but is > unfortunately considered a feature. >
I think the question here is that what Portage does when there's a newer EAPI in the tree version that Portage does not yet support but there's a supported version in the vdb. Regards, Petteri
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