From: Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove php4 from depend.php and others
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:34:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100710083437.GA6598@hrair> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C381392.5050505@gentoo.org>
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On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 09:30:42AM +0300, Petteri RRRty wrote:
> On 07/10/2010 01:22 AM, Matti Bickel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > yet another patch from Ole in a bid to rid the php eclasses from some
> > long forgotten code. The patches should be self-explanatory - just rip
> > out everything related to dev-php4 :)
> >
> > Comments welcome.
> >
>
> The standing policy is still not to remove any public functionality from
> eclasses. If we decide to start removing functionality the council
> should set common rules for it.
Just adding a note on this one- the original technical reason for
this policy (portage inability to run from just the saved env dump)
is no longer an issue.
If people want to allow eclasses to have fluid APIs (specifically
removal of functionality), that's a discussion that needs to start on
the dev level.
Anyone got strong opinions on this one?
~brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-10 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-09 22:22 [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove php4 from depend.php and others Matti Bickel
2010-07-10 6:30 ` Petteri Räty
2010-07-10 8:34 ` Brian Harring [this message]
2010-07-10 9:45 ` Allow eclasses to have fluid APIs (was: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove php4 from depend.php and others) Matti Bickel
2010-07-11 3:02 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: remove php4 from depend.php and others Ryan Hill
2010-07-11 5:02 ` Doug Goldstein
2010-07-11 12:49 ` Petteri Räty
2010-07-11 16:03 ` Doug Goldstein
2010-07-11 16:37 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2010-07-11 16:47 ` Petteri Räty
2010-07-11 21:33 ` Brian Harring
2010-07-11 21:56 ` Doug Goldstein
2010-07-11 23:49 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2010-07-12 8:54 ` Petteri Räty
2010-07-13 3:05 ` Doug Goldstein
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