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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to undeprecate EGO_SUM
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 08:49:21
Message-Id: uilp5uewr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to undeprecate EGO_SUM by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2022, Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 > On Mon, 2022-06-13 at 09:44 +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote:
4 >> Judging from the gentoo-dev@ mailing list discussion [1] about EGO_SUM,
5 >> where some voices where in agreement that EGO_SUM has its raison d'être,
6 >> while there where no arguments in favor of eventually removing EGO_SUM,
7 >> I hereby propose to undeprecate EGO_SUM.
8 >>
9 >> 1: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/1a64a8e7694c3ee11cd48a58a95f2faa
10
11 Can this be done without requesting changes to package managers?
12 Previous examples are unexporting variables because their size exceeds
13 the limit of the Linux kernel [2], or introduction of additional phase
14 functions that bypass Manifest validation [3].
15
16 > "We've been rehashing the discussion until all opposition got tired
17 > and stopped replying, then we claim everyone agrees".
18
19 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/721088
20 [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/833567

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to undeprecate EGO_SUM Florian Schmaus <flow@g.o>