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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] useq and hasq
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:56:08
Message-Id: 19990.50688.244469.827067@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] useq and hasq by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Micha³ Górny wrote:
2
3 >> > In [1] it is noted that the 'useq' and 'hasq' functions are
4 >> > "Deprecated". If this is the case, do we think it would be
5 >> > pertinent to have a repoman warning reminding people to switch to
6 >> > 'use' and 'has' respectively?
7 >>
8 >> Sounds good. One thing we could consider in future EAPIs is starting
9 >> to make deprecated functions die and then remove in the one after.
10
11 And what would be the advantage of removing these functions? They have
12 zero maintenance cost (as already stated previously, see below).
13
14 > Open a '[Future EAPI]' bug for that.
15
16 Like bug 199722? ;-)
17
18 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] useq and hasq "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>