Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mark Loeser <halcy0n@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of kdeprefix news item
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:39:22
Message-Id: 20110523153844.GK12874@halcy0n.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of kdeprefix news item by Ulrich Mueller
1 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> said:
2 > >>>>> On Thu, 19 May 2011, Alec Warner wrote:
3 >
4 > > You should file a bug about that; I'm sure one of the portage guys
5 > > can change the crap code I wrote 4 years ago to use the normal
6 > > dependency checking code for installed atoms.
7 >
8 > But we wouldn't know if users have the updated portage version
9 > installed, so it doesn't help for the current news item.
10 >
11 > I think for a proper solution we would have to increase the number of
12 > the News-Item-Format. Maybe even add a new header field for the EAPI.
13
14 This seems like the absolute easiest solution to use going forward.
15
16 Having an 'eapi' file present seems workable as well, though I'm not
17 certain which is the easiest for Portage to implement today.
18
19 Are there any other suggestions, or does anyone disagree with Ulrich's
20 suggestion?
21
22 --
23 Mark Loeser
24 email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org
25 email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com
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