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>>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Why bother? That's quite a bit of work. Instead, what's wrong with a |
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> gradual, carefully controlled phasing out? |
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Gradually phase it out in Paludis, nobody has anything against that. |
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But who does still need it in PMS? Let's see: |
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> The first step (preventing people from installing any more |
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> kdebuild-1 things) was already done recently, when the genkdesvn |
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> repo was removed. |
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Good, so no ebuild developers will need the kdebuild spec in PMS any |
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more. |
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> The second step (ensuring that people no longer have kdebuild-1 |
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> packages installed) can be done with the next major Paludis release. |
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So you also don't need it for the next major Paludis release. And |
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probably you also have better uses for your time than to do bug fixes |
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for kdebuild-1 in minor releases? |
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> The third step (removing it from everywhere) can be left until after |
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> we've given everyone reasonable time to clean up. |
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Users? Who haven't updated since several months? They don't care about |
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PMS at all. |
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Ulrich |
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