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From: "Ulrich Müller" <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] Remove contradiction in historical curiosities chapter.
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:58:41
Message-Id: 22745.46371.309518.12994@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
1 Be more specific in the introductory paragraph so that it doesn't
2 contradict the subsequent sections. Delete redundant sentence.
3 ---
4 appendices.tex | 8 +++-----
5 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
6
7 diff --git a/appendices.tex b/appendices.tex
8 index 16edce2..99429ec 100644
9 --- a/appendices.tex
10 +++ b/appendices.tex
11 @@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ been abused in the past.
12
13 \chapter{Historical Curiosities}
14
15 -The items described in this chapter are included for information only. They were deprecated or
16 -abandoned long before \t{EAPI} was introduced. Ebuilds must not use these features, and package
17 -managers should not be changed to support them.
18 +The items described in this chapter are included for information only. Unless otherwise noted,
19 +they were deprecated or abandoned long before \t{EAPI} was introduced. Ebuilds must not use these
20 +features, and package managers should not be changed to support them.
21
22 \section{If-else use blocks}
23
24 @@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ Historically, Portage supported if-else use conditionals, as shown by
25 listing~\ref{lst:if-else-use-listing}. The block before the colon would be taken if the condition
26 was met, and the block after the colon would be taken if the condition was not met.
27
28 -This feature was deprecated and removed from the tree long before the introduction of \t{EAPI}.
29 -
30 \begin{listing}
31 \caption{If-else use blocks} \label{lst:if-else-use-listing}
32 \begin{verbatim}
33 --
34 2.12.1