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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal?
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:45:18
Message-Id: 4A2BC448.2030006@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Old eclasses - candidates for removal? by "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto"
1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
2 > Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> Ulrich Mueller wrote:
4 > ...
5 >>> A quick scan shows that the following eclasses were deprecated more
6 >>> than three years ago, and are used by no ebuild in the tree:
7 >>>
8 >>> 2002-05-25 inherit.eclass
9 >>> 2003-12-11 kde-i18n.eclass
10 >>> 2004-04-16 koffice-i18n.eclass
11 >>> 2005-09-18 jakarta-commons.eclass
12 >>> 2006-02-28 php.eclass
13 >>> 2006-02-28 php-2.eclass
14 >>>
15 >>> Do we want to remove any of these? Have I missed other candidates?
16 >>>
17 >>> Ulrich
18 >>>
19 >> I would say that we should remove eclasses at earliest two years from
20 >> now. The benefit from removing now is near zero and there's some people
21 >> lurking around that haven't updated in ages.
22 >
23 >> Regards,
24 >> Petteri
25 >
26 > Why Petteri?
27 >
28
29 Because no-one has explained me what is the big benefit here.
30
31 Regards,
32 Petteri

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