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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated...
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 10:04:26
Message-Id: 20160201100414.GD1262@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated... by Andrew Savchenko
1 160201 Andrew Savchenko wrote:
2 > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 09:03:50 +0000 Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 05:56:37 +0100, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
4 >>> Switching to nvidia OpenCL interface... done
5 >>> * x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers is using the deprecated
6 >>> readme.gentoo.eclass. <<<????>>>
7 >>> * Please use readme.gentoo-r1 instead.
8 >>> What does the marked line implies? This is an outdated readme?
9 >> It's a QA message stating that the ebuild should be updated
10 >> to use a newer eclass. The readme.gentoo eclass is used
11 >> to generate messages specific to installing the package on Gentoo.
12 >> IMO ebuild QA messages like this should not be shown to users.
13 > The idea is that users should ping developers
14 > with appropriate bug reports.
15
16 However are users supposed to know that ?
17 How would they know whether such a bug report really was "appropriate" ?
18
19 Really, Portage output needs a serious re-think (smile).
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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated... Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>