Jeremy Olexa wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Petteri Räty <betelge...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Stelian Ionescu wrote: >>> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:32 +0300, Petteri Räty 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 script >>>> 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 EAPI >>>> 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=3 gets approved because >>> currently there's no good way to emulate "--missing true|false|die" >>> yes, I can use something like this in sbcl: >>> || ( <sys-libs/glibc-2.6[nptl] >=sys-libs/glibc-2.6 ) >>> but not all its use cases may be this simple >>> >> Even this is wrong because: >> >> betelge...@pena ~ $ portageq metadata / ebuild sys-libs/glibc-2.2.5-r10 IUSE >> nls >> >> For most packages old versions are not kept around so just doing >>> =cat/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 >
He has said himself that he is not especially interested in implementing EAPI 3 so slack at least to me seems like a good term. Regards, Petteri
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