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diff --git a/skel.ebuild b/skel.ebuild
index 5920b0f8b4..3dea292ef7 100644
--- a/skel.ebuild
+++ b/skel.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $
@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@
# will be committed to cvs, the details on that line will be automatically
# generated to contain the correct data.
+# The EAPI variable tells the ebuild format in use.
+# Defaults to 0 if not specified. The current PMS draft contains details on
+# a proposed EAPI=0 definition but is not finalized yet.
+# Eclasses will test for this variable if they need to use EAPI > 0 features.
+# Ebuilds should not define EAPI > 0 unless they absolutely need to use
+# features added in that version.
+#EAPI=0
+
# inherit lists eclasses to inherit functions from. Almost all ebuilds should
# inherit eutils, as a large amount of important functionality has been
# moved there. For example, the $(get_libdir) mentioned below wont work