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On Saturday 30 June 2012 07:22:39 Zac Medico wrote: |
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> On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> > I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: |
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> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 |
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> > |
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> > Even if there are "a lot" of packages that can cause this breakage when |
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> > downgraded, I think it should be prevented and package managers |
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> > shouldn't try to downgrade this kind of packages as they will later |
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> > cause a total breakage. People is not supposed to know that downgrading |
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> > some package system will, for example, have an unusable gcc. |
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> |
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> It seems like a die in pkg_pretend would serve pretty well. |
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doing it on a per-ebuild basis doesn't make much sense. a simple version |
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compare (like we do in glibc as an exception to this rule because of its much |
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wider implication) is incorrect: the new version might not introduce any new |
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symbols compared to the old one, and even if it has, other packages might not |
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have been linked against the new symbols. |
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-mike |
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