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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: ccc.eclass
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:17:53
Message-Id: 20100126011727.4279a125@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: ccc.eclass by "Petteri Räty"
1 On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:29:48 +0200
2 Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 01/12/2010 12:23 AM, Brian Harring wrote:
5 > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 09:25:51PM +0100, Raaal Porcel wrote:
6 > >> scarabeus told me that the eclass can't be removed until two years since
7 > >> the deprecation date, so...
8 > >>
9 > >> Removal of the eclass on 2012/01/11
10 > >
11 > > Reasoning? Prior to env saving we couldn't particularly punt
12 > > eclasses, but env saving is widely deployed now...
13 > >
14 > > ~harring
15 >
16 > At least my argument at the time was that better to be safe when the
17 > benefit from removing old eclasses isn't that much.
18
19 Still, waiting another two years to be able to remove an eclass which
20 itself hasn't been used in two years seems a little ridiculous. I can see
21 waiting two years from when env saving went into stable, but that's passed
22 already.
23
24 wxlib.eclass was recently removed (accidentally) after being
25 deprecated for just a couple months, and the world continued to revolve
26 despite it. ;)
27
28
29 --
30 fonts, looks like Christmas at 55 degrees
31 gcc-porting, this latitude weakens my knees
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