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From: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:59:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1335279581.27869.98.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120424164526.54170c25@pomiocik.lan>

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On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 16:45 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:37:31 -0400
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 24 April 2012 10:11:44 Theo Chatzimichos wrote:
> > > Since .cvsignore is needed either way, I'm going to do it in three
> > > days if there are no objections. But I'd like some feedback for the
> > > move of the file in /var. Opinions?
> > 
> > considering the server generates it and the end user never does, i
> > don't see the point.  they get it via the normal `emerge --sync`
> > process. -mike
> 
> Maybe we should consider moving it to metadata/?
> 
> On the other hand, moving it will require fixing all tools using it.
> And as it is already deprecated, I don't see much good in still working
> on it.
> 

I agree, a sudden move (3 days) will cause nuisance breakage.  If
anything, lets firm up the schedule for it's removal, so that all tools
can be updated to use cat/pkg/metadata.xml only for local flags.

Otherwise there will be a lot of user noise generated over broken tools
such as several gentoolkit utilities, porthole, kuroo, kportagetray,...
-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org>

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-24 14:11 [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var Theo Chatzimichos
2012-04-24 14:37 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-24 14:45   ` Michał Górny
2012-04-24 14:59     ` Brian Dolbec [this message]
2012-04-24 15:06       ` Theo Chatzimichos
2012-04-24 16:21 ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-04-24 16:45   ` Paul Varner
2012-04-24 17:32     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-24 20:05       ` Rich Freeman
2012-04-25  6:26       ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long
2012-04-25 15:51         ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-28  1:02           ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J Long

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