From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxPoD-0007Ny-Sw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:35:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B85AE0401; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:34:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D41E0401 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:34:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.22.10] (ip68-4-152-120.oc.oc.cox.net [68.4.152.120]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4A3646AF for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:34:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <491087C6.9030309@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:35:02 -0800 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080914) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reinstating eclasses References: <20081104174307.5bd3d834@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20081104174307.5bd3d834@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1ebf6b47-3380-4b58-952b-66c1f897e5e4 X-Archives-Hash: 53db0d1934737e6e97ff3c6d942b114e -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Mende wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently working on a new eclass for Xfce4 that, as opposed to the > previous ones (xfce42.eclass, xfce44.eclass), is supposed to be used > for all versions. Now the most logical name for an eclass like that > would be xfce4.eclass, except that eclass already exists. It seems like > it was used for Xfce 4.2 and has been deprecated for quite some time > now. Obviously, packages using that eclass (which is zero in the main > tree and zero in the xfce herd's overlay btw) wouldn't work with my new > eclass, so I can't just extend said eclass. Now my big question is: Do > I have to think of a new name for my eclass (was thinking of something > like xfce4-r1.eclass, which I don't really like though) or can I just > overwrite the old eclass? > Considering that stable portage (2.1.4.4) uses environment.bz2 and doesn't need the eclasses to exist for uninstall or binary packages, and it's exceedingly unlikely that it will hurt anyone, I think you should go ahead and overwrite the old eclass. - -- Thanks, Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkQh8EACgkQ/ejvha5XGaPvGACdFZMsZTAr6Qi9nyD1/zd24eb6 j00AoKBfHSrXPwUMSsC1WhSwvUVvVgad =aINW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----