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 1NMknj-0007Pv-6M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:08:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C22BCE0950 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:08:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f215.google.com (mail-bw0-f215.google.com [209.85.218.215]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EFD8E05FC for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so3834916bwz.26 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:53:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=KGxEXlhwBI5g+wZtS+N6wfWHQcwJq+BR4ETNhjfD0eI=; b=MHCJP1Hc8xJdftHCkURPZu+jrcBsfB7gwvagUyk4RG6cSqbZtUHmnCKiQj8jALNwdN hfzqA6mxmCmreG8BTI2QIGtgGXhZArnowGk3EXmYzsj2pmQRrpEuTmRXYm8R0qD1ZD35 R3dHXMg13psct1VNVO00OhfpzuVGBREh7HUg4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=xSFsovCBCQxT/LIXVbfkUjt3N9pD31IX89lbHysotyQu4Uce/a43U10Exx1uc8Ao/5 Yp+hrkJksUo/Qxd2n79p6zu6x5KS6ZRN3BLi7pzcHrxPakTlldevl65iQTaW7GBmfEn8 2ei5F0ZaOUg5G6F+Remc+1343BbTGrNdXMLSQ= Received: by 10.102.15.9 with SMTP id 9mr1293528muo.58.1261407184472; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowcone (cpc1-sgyl18-0-0-cust846.sgyl.cable.virginmedia.com [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g1sm17079926muf.14.2009.12.21.06.53.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:53:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:52:57 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item for Paludis kdebuild-1 removal Message-ID: <20091221145257.2bd1dae2@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20091216232819.2c7303c9@gentoo.org> References: <20091214195425.1272e892@snowcone> <20091216232819.2c7303c9@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/v_9E3z+./Jrlw1+a1fjUdGN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ecac1cdb-438c-452a-a6f0-9755e3c4c239 X-Archives-Hash: 94ccf521562d558185bd9390bbd72247 --Sig_/v_9E3z+./Jrlw1+a1fjUdGN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:28:19 +0100 Christian Faulhammer 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: >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/v_9E3z+./Jrlw1+a1fjUdGN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksvi8sACgkQ96zL6DUtXhErpgCfV85qJ4HrFe+3l7Ea1bAX1XMT YmwAoMrDXx7uXIBqeERfs1nj00yIOtRO =UHNn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/v_9E3z+./Jrlw1+a1fjUdGN--