On 03/03/2010 02:47 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:47:37 +0100 > Tomáa Chvátal <scarab...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> Removing eclass functions like this is not allowed by current >>>> policy. If you want to do it, you should discuss about changing >>>> policy. >>> >>> since when? >>> >> Since ever. >> If you change eclass abi you need to rename it. > > No, that's not been the case 'since ever' at all. It used to be that if > you changed or removed a function, you just had to make sure you didn't > break anything. This was made more complicated by the way that eclasses > in the tree were used for removing installed packages too, which is no > longer an issue. >
You can't fix all possible overlays so you can only start removing functions that are used for installations if we decide we don't care about overlays. Regards, Petteri
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