Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 07:56:46
Message-Id: 20160209105624.28bd8eb8df594be6e4159845@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated... by Philip Webb
1 On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 05:04:14 -0500 Philip Webb wrote:
2 > 160201 Andrew Savchenko wrote:
3 > > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 09:03:50 +0000 Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 > >> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 05:56:37 +0100, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
5 > >>> Switching to nvidia OpenCL interface... done
6 > >>> * x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers is using the deprecated
7 > >>> readme.gentoo.eclass. <<<????>>>
8 > >>> * Please use readme.gentoo-r1 instead.
9 > >>> What does the marked line implies? This is an outdated readme?
10 > >> It's a QA message stating that the ebuild should be updated
11 > >> to use a newer eclass. The readme.gentoo eclass is used
12 > >> to generate messages specific to installing the package on Gentoo.
13 > >> IMO ebuild QA messages like this should not be shown to users.
14 > > The idea is that users should ping developers
15 > > with appropriate bug reports.
16 >
17 > However are users supposed to know that ?
18 > How would they know whether such a bug report really was "appropriate" ?
19 >
20 > Really, Portage output needs a serious re-think (smile).
21
22 If emerge outputs something strange for ebuild, this should be
23 reported as bug, as well as any other weird package behaviour.
24
25 Of course, no one _must_ report this, this is a matter of a good
26 will.
27
28 Best regards,
29 Andrew Savchenko