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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Deprecating an eclass
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:50:02
Message-Id: 20080218204951.337fe426@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Deprecating an eclass by Doug Klima
1 On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:43:56 -0500
2 Doug Klima <cardoe@g.o> wrote:
3 > Ok. I guess no one else has any feelings about this.
4 >
5 > Potentially doing something like:
6 >
7 > DEPRECIATED="$DEPRECATED $ECLASS"
8
9 Deprecated != depreciated.
10
11 > at the top of each deprecated eclass. In the end $DEPRECATED would
12 > have a list of all the eclasses that are deprecated?
13 >
14 > Maybe even:
15 >
16 > DEPRECATED_MYECLASS="myreplacement"
17 >
18 > would mean that myeclass.eclass is replaced by myreplacement.eclass ?
19
20 Well, that depends upon whether you want it to be part of the C/P-V
21 metadata... If you do, it's a cache format change (and you can't easily
22 do DEPRECATED_*). But then, deprecation is a property of the eclass,
23 not an C/P-V.
24
25 --
26 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Deprecating an eclass Doug Klima <cardoe@g.o>