Re: [gentoo-pms] kdebuild-1 conditionals

[Brian Harring]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:51:56PM +0100, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in commit 6a281c0bc6b951c0885c8787fa5c353a4f4e3d0d I disabled
> kdebuild-1 by default.  My proposal now is to drop the KDEBUILD
> conditionals as a whole as the overlay has gone anyway, where it was
> used.  We can add a sentence in the introduction or wherever which says
> something along the lines like "kdebuild-1 was the first EAPI like
> format that supported extended features added to official EAPIs later
> on and was heavily tested in the official Gentoo KDE overlay".  This
> would ease maintenance a bit.

One potential compromise- tag in a section in pms about "nonstandard 
eapis" and throw in some links to places folks can look.  That general 
approach should provide a way to retire standardized EAPIs from the 
doc also- same thing "go look here".

Aside from that, the 'first' bit is inaccurate- prefix actually was 
first (almost since their inception they relied on it).

Either way, +1 for punting it.  Someone earlier labeled it as a "latex 
obfuscator"- that pretty much nails my views/reasoning for wanting it 
gone.

Tt's a bit like c source, ones annoyance grows proportional to the 
invasiveness of ifdefs.

~harring