Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Policy for migrating library consumers to subslots

[Kent Fredric]

On 29 September 2013 09:14, Martin Vaeth
<vaeth@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de>wrote:

> the
> dependencies would not pull in unnecessary packages for the user.
>

Its just every time you say "unnessecary", that also implies that users **
NEVER** want new versions of dependencies.

That is just not true for most of the gentoo tree. If a user doesn't want
"newer versions" of things, portage already provides them the tools to
solve that problem.

Now if a thing **in tree** explicitly doensn't work with a specific version
of something perl, then thats ground for declaring a blocker.

Its not grounds for perpetuating /*your*/ preference to not upgrade things
beyond core versions until other things **require** it to happen.

ie: Just because its not required that we have a newer version of something
in tree, thats not grounds for not providing it. Its simply grounds for end
users to exercise free will in deciding what they will and will not
install.


-- 
Kent