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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portability.eclass: dead egethome, egetshell, is-login-disabled funcs ?
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:57:28
Message-Id: 4EAE46A6.60408@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] portability.eclass: dead egethome, egetshell, is-login-disabled funcs ? by "Petteri Räty"
1 On 10/30/11 23:33, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > On 27.10.2011 2.40, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >> i can't see any ebuild/eclass using egethome, egetshell,
4 >> is-login-disabled from portability.eclass. anyone have a reason for
5 >> keeping these before i punt them ?
6 >> -mike
7 >>
8 >
9 > Breaking overlays.
10
11 grepping over all overlays that I can checkout I find only the openbsd
12 overlay having a copy of the eclass, but zero ebuilds using it
13
14 > Isn't the standing policy still to not break
15 > backwards compatibility as long as an eclass exists?
16 >
17 > Regards,
18 > Petteri
19 >