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On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 17:37 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> On 1/11/07, Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote: |
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> > And I assume there is a non-trivial number of custom scripts out there |
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> > using make.profile, but that's nothing we can do about. |
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> You could give them all a grace period for which have to comply with |
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> the new standard by then end of it, and have ( during that grace |
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> period ) an automatic symlink generation based on that make.conf flag. |
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> And just to make sure, I doubt it would be too difficult to have an |
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> application that analyises packages as they install to check whether |
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> they reference make.profile or not, and flag a QA warning if they do. |
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> And packages that don't switch to the standard by the end of the grace |
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> period I guess we'll see on a "last rites" bulletin ;) |
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Or we/gentoo could just support it and stop breaking the end user. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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Gentoo Linux |
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