Re: [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

Sam James <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Oct 2021 10:24:47 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel
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> On 19 Oct 2021, at 00:24, Francesco Riosa <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Sorry but portage is too strictly related to the ebuilds in tree, recent removal of EAPI=5 from most eclasses underlined that.
> Or to put id differently if you want a LTS portage you also need a certain number of "protected" eclasses and ebuilds
> It seems a lot of (very appreciated but don't count on me) work

FWIW, I don't think it'd be a big deal to just agree that we wouldn't rip out old EAPI support from eclasses
and also slow down with adopting new EAPIs for ebuilds (which there's vague consensus about wrt EAPI 8
being done a bit too quickly anyway).

i.e. I don't think this is really a blocker.

Best,
sam

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