>>>>> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Lars Wendler wrote: > I don'f feel very well with this idea especially because no matter > how hard I try I don't get comfortable with EAPI-3. No offense to > our prefix guys, you surely did a hell of a good job and EAPI-3 > seems to really get you out of quite some trouble you had with > earlier EAPIs, but... I for myself never tried a prefix installation > and I don't have any intentions to do this in the foreseeable future > so I still prefer EAPI-2 wherever I can simply because EAPI-3 > imposes overhead on my side which I have no real benefit from and I > have no real clue about how to write proper EAPI-3 ebuilds.
As long as your ebuild doesn't need any keywords for prefix architectures, nothing forces you to use ED and EROOT variables instead of D and ROOT. In other words, you can simply change the EAPI declaration in an ebuild from 2 to 3 and it will continue to work. Ulrich
