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On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:41:00 -0500 |
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Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> Thanks for the reminder; I looked, and it turns out that we now have |
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> a great precedent. Quoting PMS: |
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> "The required bash version was retroactively updated from 3.0 to 3.2 |
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> in November 2009 (see http://www.gentoo. |
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> org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20091109.txt)." |
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> So we could just retroactively update it again and let people scream |
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> if they're actually affected by this. |
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The last time this happened, the Council said "we're doing this once |
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because people have forced our hand, but we're never doing it again". |
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That's not a precedent. |
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> Maybe a way to set tree-level dependencies/EAPIs/features is |
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> something we seriously need to get going on. |
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No need. GLEP 55 solves it with a far lower impact. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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