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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:59:14 -0800 |
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Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> One potential compromise- tag in a section in pms about "nonstandard |
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> eapis" and throw in some links to places folks can look. That |
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> general approach should provide a way to retire standardized EAPIs |
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> from the doc also- same thing "go look here". |
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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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The first step (preventing people from installing any more kdebuild-1 |
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things) was already done recently, when the genkdesvn repo was removed. |
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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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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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Doing things that way has little to no cost and little to no user |
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impact, whereas rushing to remove kdebuild-1 without thought for the |
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effects reeks of "huh huh, let's try to wind people up". |
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Ciaran McCreesh |