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

[Zack Weinberg]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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

Well, if you're going to do that, option B might be better (or both!)
but I don't see it as a viable approach for upstream...

zw