From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SMhEx-0006at-8A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:01:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8083E0C1A; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384E5E0B3F for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:00:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.210] (unknown [24.86.176.233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dolsen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C1231B4012 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1335279581.27869.98.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal to move use.local.desc somewhere in /var From: Brian Dolbec To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:59:41 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20120424164526.54170c25@pomiocik.lan> References: <201204241037.32533.vapier@gentoo.org> <20120424164526.54170c25@pomiocik.lan> Organization: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-1NZMSxwPIHAzeRpkRosf" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 06d4fda0-245c-4433-b47a-324955e8f182 X-Archives-Hash: 1519e0644b88365032ce6a1ec246c4c5 --=-1NZMSxwPIHAzeRpkRosf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 16:45 +0200, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:37:31 -0400 > Mike Frysinger wrote: >=20 > > 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? > >=20 > > 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 >=20 > Maybe we should consider moving it to metadata/? >=20 > 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. >=20 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,... --=20 Brian Dolbec --=-1NZMSxwPIHAzeRpkRosf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJPlr/dAAoJECIU2QoBTxfLZrsH/1TndRPvrxX0V0rp47Ep4Vo2 MC9NZAhOJ84P/6JLETwIEEhbkUlmWnGUl/w3JVHO4kiE/TbrvZWVYI4WWKmgTqvT 30QKai2oITMn19d2hhGMY4d7VuIIV0cpfjGsK+dNluOkdGhRvCdIPjjO1ajBALTr xoXkc0r8WgYsfPObKOPQmX0uLMgvH9vW17rX3a7B4CTdtBr4HDI+zoOX/8ibCYbF CRCxwxlp0vXSJdKWqClSsCYRe/fNLRLAwexKBx37ThpqPQlwtd0JZnGRa2Vh75hw 0FVKK6s8zTm42wcU/FT85YmRqjmoelZwi2wde80cqz706v3SsKMn/sf19ecAlhg= =mQXF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-1NZMSxwPIHAzeRpkRosf--