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On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:57:25 Joe Peterson wrote: |
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> > Gentoo should not repeat the VHS vs Betamax war. For those who do not |
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> > remember, VHS was the better marketed but inferior technical solution |
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> > that won the standards war for domestic Video recorders. |
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> :) Yep. And bad design decisions can haunt is for a long time. |
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Actually, once we add the current-glep55 changes we have no way of sanely |
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undoing them if we should realize that they don't work out for us ... |
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... unless we do horrible things like forbidding it, which would cause the |
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same errors we are trying to hide now. |
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So unless we have a plan for mid-term future changes I don't see why we would |
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want the current GLEP55 - it's a one-way change in the current state. |
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> My preference is the one-time .ebuild->.eb change, and putting the EAPI on |
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> the first line, like a #!shebang. Very easy to extract, and good design. |
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My preference is freezing the rsync tree, storing all referenced distfiles on |
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at least one mirror, then change the rsync path. |
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That way all "old" users get the last sane upgrade position and all newer |
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changes only hit users that upgraded far enough. Means you can slip in any |
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ebuild format changes without needing to do any changes to the current file |
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and directory layout. |
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Do that every EAPI bump and worst case you have 200M per switch on the rsync |
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mirrors and 15G extra storage on a mirror (which is a tolerable expense for |
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infra if it saves us hacking things up backwards to hide errors that shouldn't |
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be there) |
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wkr, |
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Patrick |
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