[gentoo-dev] About prepalldocs

[Petteri Räty]

There seems to be lot of confusion and discussion on the prepalldocs
issue so let me try to clear the air and present my own view on the
matter. This is effectively what was voted on in the council meeting:

20:35 < dev-zero> prepalldocs should be kept internal and usage should
be avoided
20:36 < dev-zero> reason: internal function and change of it's
implementation prooves it
20:36 < dev-zero> if someone want's it's functionality he should propose
a solution for a future eapi

and later

20:39 < dberkholz> ok, so what we're saying is prepalldocs won't be in
any current EAPI and needs to be removed from ebuilds. is that accurate?

To me it seems that based on summaries and other factors some developers
seem to have understood that prepalldocs should immediately be removed
from all ebuilds using it. When I voted on the issue it was my intention
to put the issue on the table so that a proper technical solution can be
achieved. If we just leave it there, it's most likely that nothing will
happen. So until we have a decision on what the replacement will be I
don't see a need to remove current prepalldocs usage but any new usage
must be avoided.

So hopefully we will learn from this and can get things communicated
better next time.

Regards,
Petteri

PS. Modifying eutils.eclass without review on gentoo-dev is not allowed
PPS. Instead of discussion about has happened let's try to refocus
energy on writing code instead