On 03/03/2010 02:47 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:47:37 +0100
> Tomáa Chvátal <scarabeus@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> Removing eclass functions like this is not allowed by current
>>>> policy. If you want to do it, you should discuss about changing
>>>> policy.
>>>
>>> since when?
>>>
>> Since ever.
>> If you change eclass abi you need to rename it.
> 
> No, that's not been the case 'since ever' at all. It used to be that if
> you changed or removed a function, you just had to make sure you didn't
> break anything. This was made more complicated by the way that eclasses
> in the tree were used for removing installed packages too, which is no
> longer an issue.
> 

You can't fix all possible overlays so you can only start removing
functions that are used for installations if we decide we don't care
about overlays.

Regards,
Petteri