From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] portability.eclass: dead egethome, egetshell, is-login-disabled funcs ?
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:50:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EADD4C2.5080806@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EADD18F.9050300@gentoo.org>
On 10/31/2011 12:37 AM, Markos Chandras wrote:
> On 10/30/2011 10:33 PM, 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 ? -mike
>>>
>
>> Breaking overlays. Isn't the standing policy still to not break
>> backwards compatibility as long as an eclass exists?
>
>> Regards, Petteri
>
>
> We have no have direct control on overlays. It is up to maintainers to
> ensure that their packages work with portage eclasses or they can have
> their own eclasses locally.
There could be an deprecation warning that the functions are going away
to be nice with overlay maintainers but there is no requirement for such
thing far as I'm aware.
Punt away.
- Samuli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-30 22:51 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 [this message]
2011-10-31 0:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-31 4:44 ` William Hubbs
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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