Subject: Re: Curious deprecated option handling
To: Amitai Schlair <schmonz@schmonz.com>
From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@in-nomine.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/04/2005 10:07:26
-On [20050904 01:17], Amitai Schlair (schmonz@schmonz.com) wrote:
>The reason there's still code to deal with this variable, and the 
>others you mentioned, is that people may have chosen to set them in 
>mk.conf. We generally keep honoring such deprecated variables until 
>after the next quarterly pkgsrc branch has been cut.

Yes, ok, I can understand that.  But at present this deprecated option
detection code will be crying wolf because it does *not* reflect the pkg's
reality (as the warning message suggests), but rather old style handling in
the pkgsrc infrastructure.
This is both misleading to users and pkg maintainers in my opinion.

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