[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles/updates: 4Q-2007

[Mark Loeser]

"Hanno Boeck (hanno)" <hanno@g.o> said:
> hanno       07/11/06 01:01:35
>
>   Modified:             4Q-2007
>   Log:
>   move beryl packages to their corresponding compiz fusion packages
>
> Revision  Changes    Path
> 1.10                 profiles/updates/4Q-2007
>
> file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/profiles/updates/4Q-2007?rev=1.10&view=markup
> plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/profiles/updates/4Q-2007?rev=1.10&content-type=text/plain
> diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/profiles/updates/4Q-2007?r1=1.9&r2=1.10
>
> Index: 4Q-2007
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/updates/4Q-2007,v
> retrieving revision 1.9
> retrieving revision 1.10
> diff -u -r1.9 -r1.10
> --- 4Q-2007	3 Nov 2007 15:35:36 -0000	1.9
> +++ 4Q-2007	6 Nov 2007 01:01:35 -0000	1.10
> @@ -8,3 +8,10 @@
>  move x11-apps/compiz-settings x11-apps/ccsm
>  move x11-plugins/compiz-extra x11-plugins/compiz-fusion-plugins-main
>  slotmove =app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-java-1.4* 1.4.2 1.4
> +move x11-wm/beryl x11-wm/compiz-fusion
> +move x11-wm/beryl-core x11-wm/compiz
> +move x11-plugins/beryl-plugins x11-plugins/compiz-fusion-plugins-main
> +move x11-plugins/beryl-dbus x11-plugins/compiz-fusion-plugins-extra
> +move x11-misc/beryl-settings-bindings x11-libs/compizconfig-python
> +move x11-misc/beryl-settings x11-libs/libcompizconfig
> +move x11-misc/beryl-manager x11-apps/ccsm

Just to get a wider audience involved in this...this just seems wrong to
do.  There is a QA bug open about it as well:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198248

What are other people's feelings on using package moves to forcibly
migrate people like this?  It also sounds like this wasn't announced at
all and the packages just left the tree.

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Mark Loeser
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