Sunday 07 Feb 2016 11:38:27, M.B. wrote : > > Hello folks. > > While hacking away on a new ebuild I came across the issue that > games.eclass apparently got banned from future use. The only references > I was able to dig up (apart from helpful people on IRC), were > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566498 (games.eclass: use of > games group needs to be removed wrt 20151011 Council meeting) > and > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Meeting_Summaries#Games_team_policies_issue > (A mere deprecation notice). > > In contrast, a simple "grep deprec /usr/portage/eclass/" gives numerous > deprecation warnings; just games.eclass is not among them. > > Please provide some guidance how (community-)developers are supposed to > handle games (in particular wrt games.eclass) in the future. This also > includes usage of /usr/games/{bin/lib/share} etc. > > Regards, > tomboy64 > >
Good point. I too came across this problem when dealing with another bug (games-emulation/ppsspp). A user filed a bug, complaining the ebuild wasn't installing the compiled binary in /usr/games and suggested it should inherit the games eclass: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572606#c12 I wasn't aware of the ban too so if someone has a better solution, I'm all ears. Regards, -- Patrice Clement Gentoo Linux developer http://www.gentoo.org
