Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to undeprecate EGO_SUM

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2022, Florian Schmaus wrote:

>>>> Judging from the gentoo-dev@ mailing list discussion [1] about EGO_SUM,
>>>> where some voices where in agreement that EGO_SUM has its raison d'être,
>>>> while there where no arguments in favor of eventually removing EGO_SUM,
>>>> I hereby propose to undeprecate EGO_SUM.
>>>>
>>>> 1: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/1a64a8e7694c3ee11cd48a58a95f2faa

>> Can this be done without requesting changes to package managers?

> What is 'this' here?

Undeprecating EGO_SUM.

> The patchset does not make changes to any package manager, just the
> go-module eclass.

> Note that this is not about finding about an alternative to dependency
> tarballs. It is just about re-allowing EGO_SUM in addition to
> dependency tarballs for packaging Go software in Gentoo.

OK. Thanks for the clarification.

Ulrich