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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portability.eclass: dead egethome, egetshell, is-login-disabled funcs ?
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:51:44
Message-Id: 4EADD4C2.5080806@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] portability.eclass: dead egethome, egetshell, is-login-disabled funcs ? by Markos Chandras
1 On 10/31/2011 12:37 AM, Markos Chandras wrote:
2 > On 10/30/2011 10:33 PM, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> On 27.10.2011 2.40, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 >>> i can't see any ebuild/eclass using egethome, egetshell,
5 >>> is-login-disabled from portability.eclass. anyone have a reason
6 >>> for keeping these before i punt them ? -mike
7 >>>
8 >
9 >> Breaking overlays. Isn't the standing policy still to not break
10 >> backwards compatibility as long as an eclass exists?
11 >
12 >> Regards, Petteri
13 >
14 >
15 > We have no have direct control on overlays. It is up to maintainers to
16 > ensure that their packages work with portage eclasses or they can have
17 > their own eclasses locally.
18
19 There could be an deprecation warning that the functions are going away
20 to be nice with overlay maintainers but there is no requirement for such
21 thing far as I'm aware.
22
23 Punt away.
24
25 - Samuli