Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 01/10] gnome2-utils: move icon functions into xdg-utils

[Marty E. Plummer]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 08:22:02AM +0200, Hans de Graaff wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 20:27 -0500, Marty E. Plummer wrote:
> > 
> >  # Updates Gtk+ icon cache files under /usr/share/icons.
> > -# This function should be called from pkg_postinst and pkg_postrm.
> > +# Deprecated. Please use xdg_icon_cache_update from xdg-utils.eclass
> >  gnome2_icon_cache_update() {
> 
> This would be a good candidate for an eqawarn message. Not sure how
> many people will catch this deprecation in the documentation.
> 
> Hans
Later patch in the series causes this function to error out on EAPI 7+,
along with a message. I had previously had the same idea, but the ml
thought it would be a bad idea for n amount of currently working ebuilds
to just start yelling out of nowhere. Just force the migration when
updating to EAPI 7 and we're good :)