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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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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