Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-analyzer/wireshark: wireshark-1.6.2.ebuild ChangeLog wireshark-1.4.9.ebuild wireshark-1.4.7.ebuild wireshark-1.6.0_rc1.ebuild wireshark-1.4.4.ebuild wireshark-1.4.6-r1.ebuild

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 06:24:51 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:53:28 +0200 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> > Il giorno mar, 13/09/2011 alle 10.28 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto:
> > > In that case blocking just old versions is wrong, since if your
> > > installed version is broken and you try to reinstall, you'll need to
> > > uninstall first too.
> >
> > It doesn't matter as much when it's the same version because then it
> > would have the same soversion and thus it wouldn't cause _visible_
> > trouble.
>
> It would if the version on / is broken and you're reinstalling to try
> to fix it.

a largely irrelevant edge case that cases little to no harm
-mike