> On 13 Jul 2022, at 19:50, Arthur Zamarin <arthur...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On 13/07/2022 11.12, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2022, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> >> >> So, any opinions? Should we go for the longer transition time (and make >> overlay maintainers happy), or for a shorter time so that we can tidy up >> eclasses sooner? >> >> Ulrich > > My personal take on this question. Faster deprecation of EAPI ebuilds in > ::gentoo repo (as we can control it), but longer time until we remove it > from eclasses. Note that I don't mean here deprecation, only removal. > > I think that with current EAPI>=6 state, the "weight of supporting" > EAPI=6 isn't very heavy, so some extra time for overlays will be nice. I > do know that I don't help a lot in eclass maintenance, so if I wrong in > this statement, I won't complain of course. > > Maybe (?) this will also help during bumps of old systems (not that we > care too much, as we give them along timeframe for this and they can use > snapshots of repo, but why not as an extra bonus). >
Yeah, I broadly agree with this. Making things predictable for downstreams is important. Best, sam
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