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On Thursday 20 December 2007 17:14:52 Thomas Pani wrote: |
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> > Are we Debian now? A new feature gets implemented (obviously because we |
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> > *need* it) and we can make use of it in a *year*? |
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> No, we're not Debian, thank god. I thought the "wait 1+ year" policy |
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> changed? Again citing Ciaran: "That was only the case because |
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> previously, using new features that Portage didn't support would cause |
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> horrible breakage. Now, instead, the ebuilds show up as being masked." [2] |
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It has changed as long as you don't introduce features that makes old versions |
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of portage fail to source the ebuild. EAPI=1 didn't do that. |
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Bo Andresen |
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