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From: George Shapovalov <george@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS + bootstrap.sh
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:43:02
Message-Id: 200303161143.17383.george@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS + bootstrap.sh by Jon Portnoy
1 I agree with the reasoning behind this (meaning I think this is a right way to
2 do it).
3 However IMHO in order to stop complaint from both sides, this should probably
4 be documented. Just a note in isntall instructions should suffice..
5 (There are some related notes at the moment, but not exactly about that. And
6 yes, it is quite apperent from the script itself, but how many people
7 actually read it?)
8
9 George
10
11
12 On Sunday 16 March 2003 11:08, Jon Portnoy wrote:
13 > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:03:01PM -0300, Felipe Ghellar wrote:
14 > > Jon Portnoy wrote:
15 > > >On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:22:26AM +0100, Per Wigren wrote:
16 > > >>During the installation I set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in /etc/make.conf,
17 > > >>but when running bootstrap.sh it gets ignored..
18 > > >
19 > > >This is not a bug, this is a feature. :-)
20 > >
21 > > Ignoring the user settings is not a feature, it's a bug. Especially in a
22 > > meta-distribution, where the system should be built just the way the
23 > > _user_ wants it (in contrast with the way the _developers_ want it).
24 > >
25 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11374
26 > >
27 > > Felipe Ghellar
28 > >
29 > >
30 > > --
31 >
32 > It doesn't ignore what the user wants. It just doesn't look where you
33 > think it should.
34 >
35 > If someone really wants to use newer packages to bootstrap, they can
36 > edit the packages file in their profile. Otherwise things can
37 > potentially break and we get more bug reports.
38 >
39 > I actually believe that the package versions in the profile should
40 > probably be upped because it's somewhat outdated. However, if you want
41 > to tune your settings for bootstrap, do it in places other than
42 > make.conf and don't file bug reports if something breaks in the process.
43 >
44 > Users can do anything they want in make.conf after bootstapping.
45 >
46 > If someone has a special need to use newer packages during bootstrap,
47 > they can edit profiles/<profile>/packages.
48
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