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2009/4/1 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>: |
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> If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even |
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> vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole |
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> Gentoo dev list to see. |
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I would like the Council to discuss the matter of Portage repeatedly |
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changing behaviour in ebuild-visible ways without an EAPI bump or even |
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an announcement that anything changed. Notable examples include .lzma |
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support in unpack (bug 207193), the change in pkg_* phase ordering |
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(bug 222721) and the preservation of timestamps during merge (bug |
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264130). It is quite frustrating to spend considerable effort |
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determining Portage's behaviour and matching it in Paludis, only to |
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find a few months later that Portage changed and now users are getting |
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broken packages if not broken systems because ebuilds are starting to |
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rely on the new rules. |
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(The /really/ hilarious part is that certain people then accuse /us/ |
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of being "uncooperative" and "not caring about compatibility".) |
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This needs to be dealt with if Gentoo is ever going to take the idea |
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of PMS, or indeed EAPI itself, at all seriously. |
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