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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated...
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 09:39:30
Message-Id: 20160201123845.a0b59a8e271a2c544bfa577a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated... by Neil Bothwick
1 On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 09:03:50 +0000 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 05:56:37 +0100, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
3 >
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 >
9 > > What does the marked line implies? This is an outdated readme?
10 >
11 > It's a QA message stating thst the ebuild should be updated to use a
12 > newer eclass. The readme.gentoo eclass is used to generate messages
13 > specific to installing the package on Gentoo.
14 >
15 > It's nothing to worry about, deprecated only mean is will be broken at
16 > some time in the future, it still works for now. IMO ebuild QA messages
17 > like this should not be shown to users.
18
19 The idea is that users should ping developers with appropriate bug
20 reports.
21
22 Best regards,
23 Andrew Savchenko

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated... Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated... Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>