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| author |   Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> | 2010-07-10 14:02:36 +0300 |
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| committer | Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> | 2010-07-10 14:04:53 +0300 |
| commit | f96d388f44cc791baa89e6db51ea27bbc038526d (patch) | |
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Mark epause and ebeep as deprecated
Since the introduction of EAPI 3 eutils has not defined epause and ebeep
any more as they have better replacements these days. Devmanual now
doesn't recommend their usage for important messages and marks them as
deprecated in Message Functions Reference.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/ebuild-writing/messages/text.xml b/ebuild-writing/messages/text.xml index dcceee9..4720be4 100644 --- a/ebuild-writing/messages/text.xml +++ b/ebuild-writing/messages/text.xml @@ -95,25 +95,10 @@ is mainly used for displaying additional error details before bailing out. </section> <section> -<title>Important Messages</title> +<title>Message function reference</title> <body> <p> -For <e>really</e> important messages, <c>eutils.eclass</c> provides <c>ebeep</c> and -<c>epause</c>. The former will beep a number of times, and the latter will pause -for several seconds to allow the user to read any messages. Both can be disabled -by the user <d/> you must <b>not</b> attempt to override the user's preference in -this. <c>ebeep</c> takes an optional parameter specifying how many times to beep. -<c>epause</c> takes an optional parameter (which <b>must</b> be an exact whole number) -specifying for how long it should sleep. -</p> - -<p> -Do not abuse these functions <d/> better to save them for when things really are -important. -</p> - -<p> See <uri link="::function-reference/message-functions/"/> for a full list of functions. </p> |