Re: [gentoo-dev] Unused ebuild built_with_use cleanup

[Petteri Räty]

Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
>> Stelian Ionescu wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:32 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
>>>> I wrote a script to check which ebuilds use built_with_use and have
>>>> keywords in never versions making the ebuild unused. This means that
>>>> neither arch or ~arch users are likely to install the ebuild. The script
>>>> and the list of ebuilds is attached. I plan on removing all these
>>>> ebuilds two weeks from now unless a reason is given why not to. If you
>>>> see an ebuild on the list that should be kept, please migrate it to EAPI
>>>> 2. If you need assistance in migrating, I can help. With these gone
>>>> built_with_use usage will be down to about 600:
>>> built_with_use shouldn't be removed until EAPI=3 gets approved because
>>> currently there's no good way to emulate "--missing true|false|die"
>>> yes, I can use something like this in sbcl:
>>> || ( <sys-libs/glibc-2.6[nptl] >=sys-libs/glibc-2.6 )
>>> but not all its use cases may be this simple
>>>
>> Even this is wrong because:
>>
>> betelgeuse@pena ~ $ portageq metadata / ebuild sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5-r10 IUSE
>> nls
>>
>> For most packages old versions are not kept around so just doing
>>> =cat/foo-X.Y[use] is fine and EAPI 3 is not needed. I haven't come
>> across a case that couldn't be done with EAPI 2 yet. Granted the atoms
>> can be a bit cleaner with EAPI 3 but considering how much zmedico slacks
>> in implementing it, it's best to do migrating now with EAPI 2 than EAPI
>
> Comments like these are not acceptable. Zac works his tail off on
> portage. Please refrain from such comments in the future.
> -Jeremy
>

He has said himself that he is not especially interested in implementing
EAPI 3 so slack at least to me seems like a good term.

Regards,
Petteri