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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal?
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:06:00
Message-Id: 18984.14133.179507.71357@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de
1 In last week's council meeting a policy for removal of old eclasses
2 has been defined:
3 ,----
4 | The council voted that to remove eclasses devs should take the
5 | following steps:
6 | 1) Deprecate eclasses.
7 | 2) Removal of all functionality relating to installing.
8 | 3) After two years the eclass may be removed.
9 `----
10
11 A quick scan shows that the following eclasses were deprecated more
12 than three years ago, and are used by no ebuild in the tree:
13
14 2002-05-25 inherit.eclass
15 2003-12-11 kde-i18n.eclass
16 2004-04-16 koffice-i18n.eclass
17 2005-09-18 jakarta-commons.eclass
18 2006-02-28 php.eclass
19 2006-02-28 php-2.eclass
20
21 Do we want to remove any of these? Have I missed other candidates?
22
23 Ulrich

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal? "Tomáš Chvátal" <scarabeus@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal? Krzysiek Pawlik <nelchael@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal? Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal? "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal? Tobias Klausmann <klausman@g.o>