On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 17:37 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 1/11/07, Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And I assume there is a non-trivial number of custom scripts out there > > using make.profile, but that's nothing we can do about. > > > > You could give them all a grace period for which have to comply with > the new standard by then end of it, and have ( during that grace > period ) an automatic symlink generation based on that make.conf flag. > > And just to make sure, I doubt it would be too difficult to have an > application that analyises packages as they install to check whether > they reference make.profile or not, and flag a QA warning if they do. >
> And packages that don't switch to the standard by the end of the grace > period I guess we'll see on a "last rites" bulletin ;) Or we/gentoo could just support it and stop breaking the end user. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
