Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

[Michał Górny]

On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 11:38:27 +0100
"M.B." <tomboy64@××××.cn> wrote:

> Hello folks.
>
> While hacking away on a new ebuild I came across the issue that
> games.eclass apparently got banned from future use. The only references
> I was able to dig up (apart from helpful people on IRC), were
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566498 (games.eclass: use of
> games group needs to be removed wrt 20151011 Council meeting)
> and
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Meeting_Summaries#Games_team_policies_issue
> (A mere deprecation notice).
>
> In contrast, a simple "grep deprec /usr/portage/eclass/" gives numerous
> deprecation warnings; just games.eclass is not among them.
>
> Please provide some guidance how (community-)developers are supposed to
> handle games (in particular wrt games.eclass) in the future. This also
> includes usage of /usr/games/{bin/lib/share} etc.

For reference, this is the reference decision:

https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151213-summary.txt

I'm going to open a bug asking games team how they're going to proceed.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>