On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:56:03 -0800 Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Every software product has an end of life. I think if a system hasn't > been updated in the last 2 years or so, then it's fair to assume that > it will never be updated. So, all relevant versions of portage should > simply show a warning message if the encounter an ebuild name such as > "app-foo/bar-1.0.0-r1-e99.ebuild".
It's worth noting that "showing a warning message" will result in zillions of freaking out users, and that we want to be able to introduce new EAPIs without having a stable Portage version that handles it around. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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