Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Last rites for $package ...

[Alec Warner]

Steve Long wrote:
>>> Or you haven't talked to me or Beandog at all; since he has been
>>> working on this a while (now with upgraded tools!).
>> what i'd like to see is a system, to which one would give a package name,
>> which then handles the removal (almost) automatically.
>>
>> that way devs would have an easier time actually removing some cruft and
>> you guys would be freed from typing the same stuff over and over.
>> this system could be responsible for sending the out last rites mails,
>> masking the packages in package.mask etc... enrico would get his database
>> for free, both listing those that are pending removal as well as a
>> history of removals including the reason plus a pointer to the
>> corresponding bug...
>>
> This sounds like an excellent idea. Do the `upgraded tools' already automate
> this process?

The 'upgraded tools' was in regards to the GPNL project; since Beandog 
was using portageq to import metadata into the database; this turned out 
to be a bad idea (slow as all hell).  The upgraded portion was Marien 
writing some funky pkgcore voodoo to do the metadata import in about 
three minutes.

Phreak and I have some scripts that automate portions of the removal 
process (including adding stuff into the treecleaner overlay!) but I 
know I'm not using em (not what I would call production ready yet).

I don't like automated E-mails all that much, tbh.  Right now my script 
just generates the text for the e-mail and I read it over and add 
comments and then paste it into my client ;)  Some people stated that 
they liked more comments than just "masked for bug #XXXXXX' so I try to 
provide those; a tool just won't cover it in that aera.

Also there is no history of removals other than the ebuilds go into the 
treecleaner project overlay; which I guess provides a revision history 
for removals by default (cool!).
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