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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: The big eclasses massacre
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 21:00:23
Message-Id: 20041107205834.5375e146@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: The big eclasses massacre by Patrick Lauer
1 On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 21:54:07 +0100 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | after the recent discussion about eclass versioning, possible flaws in
4 | eclass signing/authentication I'd like to see eclass versioning
5 | implemented. This will hopefully reduce some frustrating bugs and
6 | consistency problems, but will cause a bit more work for the
7 | maintainers and some small additions to portage.
8
9 Well, you can handle incompatible package versions from the one eclass
10 using versionator. toolchain and vim do this already...
11
12 --
13 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips)
14 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
15 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: The big eclasses massacre Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>