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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> Stelian Ionescu wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:32 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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>>> I wrote a script to check which ebuilds use built_with_use and have |
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>>> keywords in never versions making the ebuild unused. This means that |
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>>> neither arch or ~arch users are likely to install the ebuild. The script |
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>>> and the list of ebuilds is attached. I plan on removing all these |
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>>> ebuilds two weeks from now unless a reason is given why not to. If you |
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>>> see an ebuild on the list that should be kept, please migrate it to EAPI |
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>>> 2. If you need assistance in migrating, I can help. With these gone |
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>>> built_with_use usage will be down to about 600: |
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>> built_with_use shouldn't be removed until EAPI=3 gets approved because |
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>> currently there's no good way to emulate "--missing true|false|die" |
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>> yes, I can use something like this in sbcl: |
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>> || ( <sys-libs/glibc-2.6[nptl] >=sys-libs/glibc-2.6 ) |
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>> but not all its use cases may be this simple |
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> Even this is wrong because: |
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> betelgeuse@pena ~ $ portageq metadata / ebuild sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5-r10 IUSE |
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> nls |
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> For most packages old versions are not kept around so just doing |
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>>=cat/foo-X.Y[use] is fine and EAPI 3 is not needed. I haven't come |
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> across a case that couldn't be done with EAPI 2 yet. Granted the atoms |
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> can be a bit cleaner with EAPI 3 but considering how much zmedico slacks |
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> in implementing it, it's best to do migrating now with EAPI 2 than EAPI |
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Comments like these are not acceptable. Zac works his tail off on |
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portage. Please refrain from such comments in the future. |
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-Jeremy |
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> 3 in the far future. |
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> Regards, |
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> Petteri |
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