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 > 3 in the far future. > > Regards, > Petteri > >
