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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag: webp
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2016 19:56:17
Message-Id: 9d6990e0-62bc-400b-bb7e-d12c2e1c681d@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag: webp by "M. J. Everitt"
1 On 06/04/2016 09:50 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote:
2 > On 04/06/16 20:45, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
3 >> would a REQUIRED_USE in newer versions make sense to force the new use
4 >> flag for people upgrading as a deprecation period?
5 >>
6 > What's the migration path/timeline look like .. I'da thought it would be
7 > months/years to move everything that's centred on php5 up to php7 if
8 > that's the way things are going. What happened to php6 ?!?
9 >
10 > Personally I'da thought an ewarning would be sufficient based on the old
11 > flag, and perhaps a news item if considered important enough?!
12 >
13
14 as long as it is sufficient time and it notifies ahead of time, and the
15 new use flag can be added to package.use immediately, indeed, although I
16 believe an elog is more appropriate than ewarn in that case.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag: webp "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>