On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Apr 17, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> The xorg-2 eclass currently uses the deprecated autotools-utils and >> autotools-multilib eclasses, which are banned in EAPI 6. >> >> This patchset attempts to remove any trace of autotools-utils from ebuilds >> using xorg-2. >> >> Note that I am touching stable ebuilds here to avoid forking an "xorg-3" >> eclass. If there is a strong feeling that this is too dangerous, I can alter >> my approach. I have build tested most packages using xorg-2, and only a few >> had issues. >> > > Although I commend you for these efforts, given that this deprecation is also > linked to EAPI6, why not instead bump to XORG-3 requiring EAPI6, take > advantage of all the simplifications, and this will allow/enforce migration > of all the ebuilds as well in turn? > > It would be nice for instance to drop the epatch stuffs at the same time, if > we could... >
If the x11 team wants to go that way, that's fine. It's just a lot more work to update all the ebuilds, so I would need people to help out.
