[gentoo-pms] Re: Remove IMAGE retroactively?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Petteri Räty wrote:

> On 28.8.2012 11.18, Brian Harring wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
>>> Portage doesn't export the IMAGE variable any more since several
>>> years. So it may be more appropriate to remove it from the spec
>>> entirely, instead of listing it as removed in EAPI 5.
>>
>> Are you positive portage hasn't exported this for a long while?  I
>> recall trying to get IMAGE punted a while back and hitting a wall
>> since it was still there.
>>
>> Either way, kill the sucker.  :)

> Why does Portage remove such things without EAPI changes?

I don't know. But it was removed in 2007 already, see bug 170671
<https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170671> and this commit:
<http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commit;h=6be7d0168348e49cd4f8c8508a07ea3cb1d76a68>

Later it was (accidentally?) readded to PMS in this commit:
<http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/pms.git;a=commit;h=58d3bc0e830156d9b04830ac90a646f272e234af>

Ulrich