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Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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... |
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>> A quick scan shows that the following eclasses were deprecated more |
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>> than three years ago, and are used by no ebuild in the tree: |
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>> |
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>> 2002-05-25 inherit.eclass |
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>> 2003-12-11 kde-i18n.eclass |
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>> 2004-04-16 koffice-i18n.eclass |
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>> 2005-09-18 jakarta-commons.eclass |
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>> 2006-02-28 php.eclass |
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>> 2006-02-28 php-2.eclass |
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>> Do we want to remove any of these? Have I missed other candidates? |
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>> Ulrich |
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> |
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> I would say that we should remove eclasses at earliest two years from |
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> now. The benefit from removing now is near zero and there's some people |
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> lurking around that haven't updated in ages. |
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> |
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> Regards, |
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> Petteri |
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Why Petteri? |
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The first Portage version that started using the eclasses saved on |
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environment.bz2 was stabled more than 1 year ago and Portage has been |
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saving that info for a lot more than that. Also, as Ulrich pointed out, |
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those eclasses were deprecated *3* years ago. |
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How long are we planning to start to support old installs? Besides, as |
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it has already been pointed out before, all that is required for anyone |
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with such an install to get over the removed eclasses is to grab them |
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from somewhere else and put them under $(portdir)/eclasses - how hard is |
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that? |
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Instead of making us "hold forever" to remove old eclasses, I would |
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rather see us put up a nice page explaining people how to fix any issue |
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that arises from that and with a link to the removed eclasses (a link to |
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the latest version on sources.gentoo.org should be enough). |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org |
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Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE |
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