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On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:08:40 +0200 |
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Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o> wrote: |
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> Is there some kind of evilness in this usage of has_version that I am |
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> not aware of? |
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Unfortunately, yes. |
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Historically, has_version in pkg_postinst would return results based |
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upon the version that *was* installed. This feature was widely used to |
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display context-aware post-install messages, and there were examples of |
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it in the documentation. Portage then silently changed this behaviour, |
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without an EAPI bump and without changing the documentation, breaking |
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all those packages in the process. The resulting mess discouraged many |
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people from bothering with that kind of thing... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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