Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Plan, then communicate
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:19:46
Message-Id: 47964FCD.1010206@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Plan, then communicate by Richard Freeman
1 Richard Freeman kirjoitti:
2 >
3 > Expat was a real mess - mainly because they break ABI and it doesn't use
4 > slotting. I'm not sure why slotting couldn't have been used in this
5 > case (others might be able to comment on this).
6 >
7
8 Expat saw extensive discussions in gentoo-dev so just search the archives.
9
10 > What we need is a better mechanism of warning users that they're about
11 > to do something that could cause them major headaches. ELOG is useless
12 > when you find out after the fact.
13 >
14
15 emerge --news
16 Just needs someone to champion it into a Portage release I think but not
17 an expert there.
18
19 Regards,
20 Petteri

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