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On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:50:58 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote: |
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| Stephen Bennett napsal(a): |
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| > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:18:26 +0100 |
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| > Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote: |
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| >> Sure I did... Could you tell me why should we accumulate broken and |
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| >> vulnerable junk in the tree for years? (Outdated ebuild A depends |
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| >> on junky outdated ebuild B which depends on crappy, unsupported |
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| >> ebuilds C, D and E which... ) |
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| > To avoid breaking the dep tree for users. Quite simple really. |
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| Ah. That's apparently much more important than not breaking users by |
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| providing them w/ non-vulnerable, decently uptodate stuff that's not |
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| ridden by tons of bugs. Yup. :P |
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So if it's "ridden by tons of bugs", why did it ever get marked stable? |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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