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On 1/11/07, Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote: |
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> Or we/gentoo could just support it and stop breaking the end user. |
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uh, the point was, what will happen to all those apps for users who |
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switched to the -new- standard by using make.conf, who will therefore |
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have no make.profile dir, so programs looking for that dir will fail. |
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We have to provide some sort of compatibilty for people who use the |
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new standard, or you will be seeing dozens of bug reports on all the |
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numerous portage based programs which are still dependant on the old |
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standard. |
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I guess of course you could do a bulk hard masking of portage |
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utilizing this feature untill all programs depending on this feature |
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are fixed, but that would be not very nice to maintain I believe. |
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