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From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portability.eclass: dead egethome, egetshell, is-login-disabled funcs ?
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:44:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111031044408.GB26878@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201110302017.48281.vapier@gentoo.org>

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On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 08:17:47PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sunday 30 October 2011 18:33:51 Petteri Räty wrote:
> > On 27.10.2011 2.40, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > i can't see any ebuild/eclass using egethome, egetshell,
> > > is-login-disabled from portability.eclass.  anyone have a reason for
> > > keeping these before i punt them ?
> > 
> > Breaking overlays. Isn't the standing policy still to not break
> > backwards compatibility as long as an eclass exists?

Not that I'm aware of; we only have to worry about the main tree.
Overlays are on their own.

William


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-31  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-26 23:40 [gentoo-dev] portability.eclass: dead egethome, egetshell, is-login-disabled funcs ? Mike Frysinger
2011-10-30 22:33 ` Petteri Räty
2011-10-30 22:37   ` Markos Chandras
2011-10-30 22:50     ` Samuli Suominen
2011-10-31  0:17   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-31  4:44     ` William Hubbs [this message]
2011-10-31  6:56   ` Patrick Lauer
2011-10-31 17:40 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
2011-11-03  0:13 ` Mike Frysinger

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