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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deprecation of python_version(), python_mod_exists(), python_tkinter_exists(), distutils_python_version() and distutils_python_tkinter() in EAPI <=2
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:47:57
Message-Id: 20100303124741.53f4b82c@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deprecation of python_version(), python_mod_exists(), python_tkinter_exists(), distutils_python_version() and distutils_python_tkinter() in EAPI <=2 by "Tomáš Chvátal"
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4 On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:47:37 +0100
5 Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@g.o> wrote:
6 > >> Removing eclass functions like this is not allowed by current
7 > >> policy. If you want to do it, you should discuss about changing
8 > >> policy.
9 > >
10 > > since when?
11 > >
12 > Since ever.
13 > If you change eclass abi you need to rename it.
14
15 No, that's not been the case 'since ever' at all. It used to be that if
16 you changed or removed a function, you just had to make sure you didn't
17 break anything. This was made more complicated by the way that eclasses
18 in the tree were used for removing installed packages too, which is no
19 longer an issue.
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21 - --
22 Ciaran McCreesh
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