From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mw15Z-0001qD-JH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:03:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 265BFE0A96; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:03:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f211.google.com (mail-bw0-f211.google.com [209.85.218.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D006EE0A96 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:03:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so1516725bwz.34 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:03:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PdhWlBkCVr7+GF8gcv1ed3MXNNNcS1Mc9c19iaPiZ8U=; b=c1TYjzeNvTjEXfPB/nJS9U6K46v932xd30v2pFT9TMEnJ4P9en8/upO1CXgE0jWB4a wLvaRrJ7gEOgW3i1VN3AAirqnEOXGvnGSbGlDl+NJkPaR1Yuo+dpUwLGSUP2HTstTP7j QrUt3ADsGxZbssFa5N14hGoOwlYW1oxe6iwV4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=SQOXNX4iqfWpJZOj2P8qFCogen7hlh7qUx1hwYdG8lgftheqN8OOGhcjJrXEkeQh5D JONKKSAuNBQMknIFzsW7YTYJCMejxD2IBlxQHCFEEo3s8FlgTHCrP3QyzkX/7Emb9bne bi4pGxk2CTzv79Sr1JYK2TV92fxEe1RnSlp/Y= 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 Sender: jer.gentoo@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.8.199 with SMTP id i7mr1506874bki.37.1255039435195; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:03:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4ACE5AD2.1020306@gentoo.org> References: <4AC20C83.3050904@gentoo.org> <1254916467.6236.11.camel@blackhole.cddr.org> <4ACE5AD2.1020306@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 17:03:55 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 45f5ed7528dba817 Message-ID: <90b936c0910081503h29bb0bbale75a059cffb178df@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unused ebuild built_with_use cleanup From: Jeremy Olexa To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: c61959b3-1b3c-4c2c-8ff8-a287d5a0b8cd X-Archives-Hash: 5eaf20996a200946e5f91f4200592dd0 On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Petteri R=C3=A4ty w= rote: > Stelian Ionescu wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:32 +0300, Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: >>> I wrote a script to check which ebuilds use built_with_use and have >>> keywords in never versions making the ebuild unused. This means that >>> neither arch or ~arch users are likely to install the ebuild. The scrip= t >>> and the list of ebuilds is attached. I plan on removing all these >>> ebuilds two weeks from now unless a reason is given why not to. If you >>> see an ebuild on the list that should be kept, please migrate it to EAP= I >>> 2. If you need assistance in migrating, I can help. With these gone >>> built_with_use usage will be down to about 600: >> >> built_with_use shouldn't be removed until EAPI=3D3 gets approved because >> currently there's no good way to emulate "--missing true|false|die" >> yes, I can use something like this in sbcl: >> || ( =3Dsys-libs/glibc-2.6 ) >> but not all its use cases may be this simple >> > > Even this is wrong because: > > betelgeuse@pena ~ $ portageq metadata / ebuild sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5-r10 I= USE > nls > > For most packages old versions are not kept around so just doing >>=3Dcat/foo-X.Y[use] is fine and EAPI 3 is not needed. I haven't come > across a case that couldn't be done with EAPI 2 yet. Granted the atoms > can be a bit cleaner with EAPI 3 but considering how much zmedico slacks > in implementing it, it's best to do migrating now with EAPI 2 than EAPI Comments like these are not acceptable. Zac works his tail off on portage. Please refrain from such comments in the future. -Jeremy > 3 in the far future. > > Regards, > Petteri > >