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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portability.eclass: dead egethome, egetshell, is-login-disabled funcs ?
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:48:42
Message-Id: 20111031044408.GB26878@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] portability.eclass: dead egethome, egetshell, is-login-disabled funcs ? by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 08:17:47PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Sunday 30 October 2011 18:33:51 Petteri Räty wrote:
3 > > On 27.10.2011 2.40, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 > > > i can't see any ebuild/eclass using egethome, egetshell,
5 > > > is-login-disabled from portability.eclass. anyone have a reason for
6 > > > keeping these before i punt them ?
7 > >
8 > > Breaking overlays. Isn't the standing policy still to not break
9 > > backwards compatibility as long as an eclass exists?
10
11 Not that I'm aware of; we only have to worry about the main tree.
12 Overlays are on their own.
13
14 William