Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item for Paludis kdebuild-1 removal

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

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On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:28:19 +0100
Christian Faulhammer <fauli@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Since kdebuild-1 is to be removed from PMS immediately, it's going
> > to go from Paludis in the next release too. We need to warn users
> > about this, since they'll no longer be able to uninstall kdebuild-1
> > packages they have installed. Please review the following GLEP 42
> > news item for this:
> 
>  As we cannot be sure that a former GenKDEsvn user still uses some of
> the KDE overlays, putting that news item in the main tree seems ok.

Plus some of the overlays that were using kdebuild-1 don't exist any
more...

> You have a committer for this?

Probably. There're enough Gentoo developers using Paludis that getting
things committed hasn't ever been an issue.

> > The Gentoo Council has decided that all mention of the kdebuild-1
> > EAPI is to be removed from the Package Manager Specification
> > immediately.
> 
>  How many users will care what the PMS is?  And why is a cleaned up
> specification breaking your implementation?  Tell them that kdebuild-1
> has reached its end of life and support will phase out.

It's the sort of thing Paludis users do tend to care about. PMS gets
mentioned often enough in answers on the Paludis mailing list, bug
tracker and IRC channels as answers to questions, so if there are any
users who haven't heard of it, we're merely bringing forward their
inevitable encounter slightly.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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