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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag: webp
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 21:56:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d6990e0-62bc-400b-bb7e-d12c2e1c681d@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57533105.4010407@iee.org>


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On 06/04/2016 09:50 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote:
> On 04/06/16 20:45, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>> would a REQUIRED_USE in newer versions make sense to force the new use
>> flag for people upgrading as a deprecation period?
>>
> What's the migration path/timeline look like .. I'da thought it would be
> months/years to move everything that's centred on php5 up to php7 if
> that's the way things are going. What happened to php6 ?!?
> 
> Personally I'da thought an ewarning would be sufficient based on the old
> flag, and perhaps a news item if considered important enough?!
> 

as long as it is sufficient time and it notifies ahead of time, and the
new use flag can be added to package.use immediately, indeed, although I
believe an elog is more appropriate than ewarn in that case.


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-04 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-04 10:45 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag: webp Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2016-06-04 10:55 ` Davide Pesavento
2016-06-04 12:56   ` Raymond Jennings
2016-06-04 16:29 ` waltdnes
2016-06-04 17:06   ` Daniel Campbell
2016-06-04 17:14   ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-06-04 19:30     ` M. J. Everitt
2016-06-04 19:39       ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-06-04 19:45         ` M. J. Everitt
2016-06-04 19:45         ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2016-06-04 19:48           ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2016-06-04 19:50           ` M. J. Everitt
2016-06-04 19:56             ` Kristian Fiskerstrand [this message]
2016-06-04 19:59               ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2016-06-04 19:59             ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-06-04 20:03               ` M. J. Everitt
2016-06-04 20:17                 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-06-04 20:20                   ` M. J. Everitt
2016-06-04 19:53           ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-06-04 19:57             ` Kristian Fiskerstrand

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