From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 321BD58973 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2016 10:44:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1976D21C035; Sun, 7 Feb 2016 10:43:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2935221C00B for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2016 10:43:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (ultrachro.me [91.121.149.60]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: monsieurp@gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BBE01340AE4 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2016 10:43:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gentoo.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) monsieurp@gentoo.org; Sun, 7 Feb 2016 11:43:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 11:43:48 +0100 From: Patrice Clement To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy Message-ID: <20160207104348.GH28175@ultrachro.me> References: <20160207113827.314d5bf0@hatshepsut> 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: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160207113827.314d5bf0@hatshepsut> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: 0b7e847f-0993-4299-bf5c-1898981029f8 X-Archives-Hash: 57592a62b187ce5e716cfd3c56f4e3ee Sunday 07 Feb 2016 11:38:27, M.B. wrote : > > Hello folks. > > While hacking away on a new ebuild I came across the issue that > games.eclass apparently got banned from future use. The only references > I was able to dig up (apart from helpful people on IRC), were > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566498 (games.eclass: use of > games group needs to be removed wrt 20151011 Council meeting) > and > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Meeting_Summaries#Games_team_policies_issue > (A mere deprecation notice). > > In contrast, a simple "grep deprec /usr/portage/eclass/" gives numerous > deprecation warnings; just games.eclass is not among them. > > Please provide some guidance how (community-)developers are supposed to > handle games (in particular wrt games.eclass) in the future. This also > includes usage of /usr/games/{bin/lib/share} etc. > > Regards, > tomboy64 > > Good point. I too came across this problem when dealing with another bug (games-emulation/ppsspp). A user filed a bug, complaining the ebuild wasn't installing the compiled binary in /usr/games and suggested it should inherit the games eclass: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572606#c12 I wasn't aware of the ban too so if someone has a better solution, I'm all ears. Regards, -- Patrice Clement Gentoo Linux developer http://www.gentoo.org