On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:04 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: [snip]
> > If by "deprecate" you mean to detect when '--' hasn't been prepended > > and either go ahead with the action or notify that the package > > doesn't exist then I have no objections. Might be better to go with > > the latter so that users adjust quickly. > > You saw the attached one-line patch? > Atm it just throws a warning when an action without -- is used. > I'm divided on ignoring the action then, on one hand it would be nice to > get rid of this, OTOH it would be kinda rude to not have a transition > period for people. Anyone else having an opinion on this? Re opinion: I agree it would be kinda rude to just deprecate a behavior and introduce another all in one shot. I'd give it a few releases till people retrain themselves. Maybe when emerge --world/--system/--action has worked it's way into at least 2 stable releases before deprecating 'action' -- solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- [email protected] mailing list
