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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Dead X11 packages
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 22:48:04
Message-Id: CAEdQ38E9gigq5z1GG3MN-F=K7P_78GC6Ad7N_RsE=WJYMA2eJw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Dead X11 packages by Brian Evans
1 On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 5:37 AM, Brian Evans <grknight@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 2/7/2018 9:54 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
3 >> # Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> (06 Feb 2018)
4 >> # Dead and unused
5 >> # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #646838
6 >> x11-libs/libXCalibrate
7 >> x11-libs/libXfontcache
8 >> x11-misc/xtscal
9 >> x11-proto/fontcacheproto
10 >> x11-proto/xcalibrateproto
11 >> x11-proto/xf86rushproto
12 >
13 >
14 >> From e590965cdeb0c921194740da0481c85afaa1ebae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
15 >> From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
16 >> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 14:02:59 -0800
17 >> Subject: x11-base/xorg-server: Remove dead x11-proto/xf86rushproto dependency
18 >>
19 >> rushproto hasn't been required since upstream commit 8ec79e05feac (in
20 >> 2005!), and even then it wasn't actually needed!
21 >>
22 >> Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.19, Repoman-2.3.6
23 >> ---
24 >> x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.19.5.ebuild | 3 +--
25 >> x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.19.6.ebuild | 3 +--
26 >> x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-9999.ebuild | 3 +--
27 >> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
28 >>
29 >
30 > Please don't edit dependencies in-line like this.
31 >
32 > This warranted a revbump as users will be asking how to remove
33 > x11-proto/xf86rushproto. It won't come up for depclean because of
34 > xorg-server not being scheduled for rebuild automatically until the next
35 > time it is upgraded or --changed-deps option is used (uncommon).
36
37 Wait, since it was just in DEPEND, I don't understand the problem.
38
39 If it were in RDEPEND, I could understand. But in DEPEND, it'll get
40 depcleaned without any problem as far as I can tell.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites: Dead X11 packages Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>