On 13/06/2022 10.29, Michał Górny wrote:
On Mon, 2022-06-13 at 09:44 +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote:
Judging from the gentoo-dev@ mailing list discussion [1] about EGO_SUM,
where some voices where in agreement that EGO_SUM has its raison d'être,
while there where no arguments in favor of eventually removing EGO_SUM,
I hereby propose to undeprecate EGO_SUM.
1:
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/1a64a8e7694c3ee11cd48a58a95f2faa
"We've been rehashing the discussion until all opposition got tired
and stopped replying, then we claim everyone agrees".
I understand this comment so that there was already a discussion about
deprecating and removing EGO_SUM. I usually try to follow what's going
on Gentoo and I remember the discussion about introducing dependency
tarballs. But I apparently have missed the part where EGO_SUM was slated
for removal. And it appears I am not the only one, at least Ionen also
wrote "Missed bits and pieces but was never quite sure why this went
toward full deprecation, just discouraged may have been fair enough, …".
In any case, I am sorry for bringing this discussion up again. But since
I started rehashing this, no arguments why EGO_SUM should be removed
have been provided. And so far, I failed to find the old discussions
where I'd hope to find some rationale behind the deprecation of EGO_SUM. :/
- Flow
