Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] herds.xml removal (was: Re: Uncoordinated changes)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 10:33:51
Message-Id: 22208.22531.883653.659725@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Uncoordinated changes by Rich Freeman
1 >>>>> On Sat, 13 Feb 2016, Rich Freeman wrote:
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3 > It isn't entirely clear that anything is actually broken at the
4 > moment, but if distributing an empty herds.xml file makes somebody's
5 > life easier I have no objections.
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7 In fact, GLEP 67 implies that the herds.xml file is to be removed
8 altogether, which would be a cleaner solution than leaving a stub.
9 Citing the GLEP: "The Gentoo systems using e.g. CVS checkouts were
10 already missing the file, and therefore the tools needed to handle
11 that case gracefully."
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13 Ulrich