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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:42:30 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Martin Wilke <miwi.fbsd@gmail.com>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, "svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.org" <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-ports-head@FreeBSD.org" <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster
Message-ID:  <20160127084230.GA28230@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <56A87FCE.6080305@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 07:29:02PM +1100, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> On 27/01/2016 7:17 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 06:40:46PM +1100, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> >> Given what the term 'deprecated' implies, I would use a pre-everything:
> >> message instead.
> > 
> > That's a good idea actually.
> 
> It would be nice to have something framework'ey that is less loaded than
> DEPRECATED, but more specific and consistent than your standard ECHO_MSG
> or pkg-message. Like CAUTION/ALERT/WARNING/INFORMATIONAL or similar.

Personally I don't think that DEPRECATED is *that* loaded.  IMHO it works
quite fine for cases like this one, and no, it should not imply expiration
date.  But perhaps there is warrant for CAUTION/ALERT/WARNING/INFORMATION
or similar indeed.

./danfe



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