On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chith...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Assume a new version 13.37 of your package manager drops EAPI=1 support. > So package-manager-13.37.ebuild checks in pkg_pretend() if any EAPI=1 > package is installed on the system. If yes, then it aborts, telling the > user to get rid of the package first. > > That way, the situation where the package manager does not know how to > uninstall a package is avoided.
I take it that removing a package without using a package manager is left as an exercise to the reader? Rich
