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From: Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal?
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:36:00
Message-Id: 200906050035.54142.tampakrap@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal? by Ulrich Mueller
1 for kde:
2 kde-i18n.eclass
3 kde-source.eclass
4 and i am not sure but i think kde-base.eclass too
5 kde-dist.eclass is used only by monolithic kde3 ebuilds that i plan to drop
6 after 3.5.10 stabilization so it will be deprecated too
7
8 Aren't there any tools that make such checks?
9
10 On Friday 05 June 2009 00:05:57 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
11 > In last week's council meeting a policy for removal of old eclasses
12 > has been defined:
13 > ,----
14 >
15 > | The council voted that to remove eclasses devs should take the
16 > | following steps:
17 > | 1) Deprecate eclasses.
18 > | 2) Removal of all functionality relating to installing.
19 > | 3) After two years the eclass may be removed.
20 >
21 > `----
22 >
23 > A quick scan shows that the following eclasses were deprecated more
24 > than three years ago, and are used by no ebuild in the tree:
25 >
26 > 2002-05-25 inherit.eclass
27 > 2003-12-11 kde-i18n.eclass
28 > 2004-04-16 koffice-i18n.eclass
29 > 2005-09-18 jakarta-commons.eclass
30 > 2006-02-28 php.eclass
31 > 2006-02-28 php-2.eclass
32 >
33 > Do we want to remove any of these? Have I missed other candidates?
34 >
35 > Ulrich
36
37 --
38 Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap)
39 Gentoo KDE Team