On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:05:52 -0400
Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Compile a list of existing ebuilds which depend on old EAPIs, and
> you've got a TODO list. (eclasses, I don't know; I don't know if
> eclasses explicitly express EAPI compatibility in metadata) Once that
> list is cleared, yes, you can assume there are no ebuilds with a
> specified EAPI of 0. I'd presume it would have been made widely known
> that new ebuilds shouldn't use the old EAPI by that point, and so
> support for the deprecated EAPI level can be abandoned.

You can't uninstall a package if you don't support its EAPI.

The "remove code" benefit applies to eclasses, not package manglers.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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