Re: [gentoo-pms] kdebuild-1 conditionales

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:17:54 -0800
Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:27:30PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > * Don't mess with kdebuild until you're sure that no-one has any
> >   kdebuild packages installed.
> 
> I'm not looking to start a fight, and frankly after a year or so I've 
> learned to just subconsciously/automatically ignore kdebuild, but why 
> exactly must this be in pms?

Because we have not yet established that no users have kdebuild things
installed. Thus, package managers that support it have to go on
supporting it.

Once kdebuild can be safely removed from package managers that have
supported it, it can then be removed from PMS.

> It's experimental w/ low user acceptance, and was fundamentally 
> outside the gentoo mainstream.  If long term maintenance of it is 
> desired for anyone who hasn't yet punted those ebuilds from their 
> vdb, maintain it in a branch rather then the effective head (don't 
> make the mainline suffer maintenance for something that was outside 
> mainline).

Branches are for use when you can't use better mechanisms. We have
better mechanisms.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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