On 06/04/2016 09:50 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 04/06/16 20:45, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> would a REQUIRED_USE in newer versions make sense to force the new use >> flag for people upgrading as a deprecation period? >> > What's the migration path/timeline look like .. I'da thought it would be > months/years to move everything that's centred on php5 up to php7 if > that's the way things are going. What happened to php6 ?!? > > Personally I'da thought an ewarning would be sufficient based on the old > flag, and perhaps a news item if considered important enough?! >
as long as it is sufficient time and it notifies ahead of time, and the new use flag can be added to package.use immediately, indeed, although I believe an elog is more appropriate than ewarn in that case. -- Kristian Fiskerstrand OpenPGP certificate reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
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