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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] games.eclass: Allow to disable games permissions wrt #467386
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:55:01
Message-Id: 546F523A.7080005@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] games.eclass: Allow to disable games permissions wrt #467386 by Pacho Ramos
1 On 11/21/2014 11:04 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > El vie, 21-11-2014 a las 11:03 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió:
3 >> El jue, 20-11-2014 a las 23:04 +0100, Michał Górny escribió:
4 >> [...]
5 >>> Here's how games-r1 would look like. However, now that I think about it,
6 >>> it may be actually useful to commit such an eclass. Otherwise people
7 >>> will keep thinking games.eclass is the way to go.
8 >>>
9 >>
10 >> Why isn't games.eclass deprecated then (like was done with old python
11 >> eclasses) to let people to progressively stop using that at all?
12 >>
13 >>
14 >
15 > I clicked to "send" too fast sorry :S
16 >
17 > I meant that maybe we should simply deprecate it in the way that repoman
18 > will inform people that they need to stop using it ;)
19 >
20 >
21
22 There are users who seem to like it and the games team wants to keep it
23 as well, so I don't see a reason to push into that direction.
24
25 The main thing is that you cannot turn off all the permission stuff in
26 the eclass whether you like it or not. Changing the install variables
27 thing is just for convenience and already possible.

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