RFC: deprecate sys/sysmacros.h inclusion from sys/types.h

[Mike Frysinger]

On 18 Nov 2015 23:13, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Andreas may still be running whole-distro rebuild tests, but enough
> results came back that I feel fairly confident saying that option B
> (remove the #include <sys/types.h> from stdlib.h) is a non-starter.
> There are too many (sloppily coded, yes) programs that include stdlib.h
> and expect it to expose all the POSIX foo_t types.  That leaves us with
> option A (remove the #include <sys/sysmacros.h> from sys/types.h) and
> even that is going to break stuff.  So we need a deprecation period.

i'm just going to drop it in Gentoo and let people fix the build failures
-mike
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