On 10/31/2011 12:37 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 10/30/2011 10:33 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: >> On 27.10.2011 2.40, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> i can't see any ebuild/eclass using egethome, egetshell, >>> is-login-disabled from portability.eclass. anyone have a reason >>> for keeping these before i punt them ? -mike >>> > >> Breaking overlays. Isn't the standing policy still to not break >> backwards compatibility as long as an eclass exists? > >> Regards, Petteri > > > We have no have direct control on overlays. It is up to maintainers to > ensure that their packages work with portage eclasses or they can have > their own eclasses locally.
There could be an deprecation warning that the functions are going away to be nice with overlay maintainers but there is no requirement for such thing far as I'm aware. Punt away. - Samuli
