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From: Stelian Ionescu <sionescu@...>
Subject: Re: Unused ebuild built_with_use cleanup
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:54:27 +0200
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:32 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
> I wrote a script to check which ebuilds use built_with_use and have
> keywords in never versions making the ebuild unused. This means that
> neither arch or ~arch users are likely to install the ebuild. The script
> and the list of ebuilds is attached. I plan on removing all these
> ebuilds two weeks from now unless a reason is given why not to. If you
> see an ebuild on the list that should be kept, please migrate it to EAPI
> 2. If you need assistance in migrating, I can help. With these gone
> built_with_use usage will be down to about 600:

built_with_use shouldn't be removed until EAPI=3 gets approved because
currently there's no good way to emulate "--missing true|false|die"
yes, I can use something like this in sbcl:
|| ( <sys-libs/glibc-2.6[nptl] >=sys-libs/glibc-2.6 )
but not all its use cases may be this simple

-- 
Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib
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