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On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:04 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > If by "deprecate" you mean to detect when '--' hasn't been prepended |
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> > and either go ahead with the action or notify that the package |
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> > doesn't exist then I have no objections. Might be better to go with |
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> > the latter so that users adjust quickly. |
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> You saw the attached one-line patch? |
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> Atm it just throws a warning when an action without -- is used. |
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> I'm divided on ignoring the action then, on one hand it would be nice to |
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> get rid of this, OTOH it would be kinda rude to not have a transition |
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> period for people. Anyone else having an opinion on this? |
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Re opinion: |
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I agree it would be kinda rude to just deprecate a behavior and |
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introduce another all in one shot. I'd give it a few releases till |
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people retrain themselves. |
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Maybe when emerge --world/--system/--action has worked it's way into |
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at least 2 stable releases before deprecating 'action' |
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solar <solar@g.o> |
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Gentoo Linux |
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