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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] Add deblob support only for python3
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:29:29
Message-Id: cac40838b063909781b4fdb62e8b80af58a0c003.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] Add deblob support only for python3 by Alice
1 On Fri, 2021-07-23 at 00:47 +0900, Alice wrote:
2 > On 7/23/21 12:43 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 2021-07-23 at 00:24 +0900, Alice wrote:
4 > > > On 7/23/21 12:02 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > > > Why are you adding the USE flag for these kernels then? It's misleading
6 > > > > at best.
7 > > >
8 > > > ah I just understand what are you asking.
9 > > > that's right the USE flag on such kernel should be removed,
10 > > > but I think is something that we can do in a next release of such kernel
11 > > > and after removing this part from the eclass.
12 > >
13 > > Why not just unset the var in eclass?
14 > >
15 >
16 > Because deblob works with python3 for kernel that are more recent than
17 > 5.4 excluded. so I'm deprecating old kernel deblob that still use python
18 > 2.7 and keep it for most recent one that can use python3.
19
20 I'm saying that instead of printing ewarn for old kernels you should
21 just disable the whole logic in eclass for old kernels.
22
23 --
24 Best regards,
25 Michał Górny

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