Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Deprecating an eclass

[Doug Klima <cardoe@gentoo.org>]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:43:56 -0500
> Doug Klima <cardoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
>   
>> Ok. I guess no one else has any feelings about this.
>>
>> Potentially doing something like:
>>
>> DEPRECIATED="$DEPRECATED $ECLASS"
>>     
>
> Deprecated != depreciated.
>   
You caught my typo. You clearly still got the meaning of the e-mail...
>   
>> at the top of each deprecated eclass. In the end $DEPRECATED would
>> have a list of all the eclasses that are deprecated?
>>
>> Maybe even:
>>
>> DEPRECATED_MYECLASS="myreplacement"
>>
>> would mean that myeclass.eclass is replaced by myreplacement.eclass ?
>>     
>
> Well, that depends upon whether you want it to be part of the C/P-V
> metadata... If you do, it's a cache format change (and you can't easily
> do DEPRECATED_*). But then, deprecation is a property of the eclass,
> not an C/P-V.
>
>   
Deprecation is a property of the eclass. Not of an ebuild. The point is 
to allow utilities and users/developers to clearly see that an eclass is 
deprecated and what they should be using in place of it.
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