svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster

Wed Jan 27 08:42:30 UTC 2016

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