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On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:19:48AM +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 00:18, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> > That particular combination works. I know it works. It has worked for |
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> > months. However, if I upgrade either libxslt to 1.0.33 or libxml2 to 2.5.8, |
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> > Weird Stuff starts happening and my life quickly becomes unpleasant. ...In my mind, that |
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> > defeats the purpose of a stable/frozen tree. |
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> That's a VERY fair argument Kurt, except I would temper it with this: |
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> What "works" for you doesn't necessarily work for me. |
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> [I presume] you arrived at that combination but bumping one or another |
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> or the third until you found a combination that was stable for your |
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> situation. Great! |
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> But that may not necessarily be stable for someone else, and the trouble |
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> comes when we consider this: who decides what is stable and what isn't? |
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> It's effectively the same manpower problem as backporting software. |
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> Debian does both these tasks. To their credit, they're very good at it, |
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> but as we know, the end result doesn't always meet our needs. |
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> I'm not against Gentoo going down that road, I'm just not sure you'll |
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> get value for the huge effort that would need to be invested. |
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this is why we have packages.mask. If there are several versions of a |
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lib, make it so that you don't upgrade it in packages.mask. That lib |
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isn't in the frozen tree ? that's ok, portage supports multiple |
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overlays these days. |
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I think a frozen tree a great idea, trying to find 'stable' versions |
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of software and dependancies between libraries is lunacy. Besides, as |
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you said it limits your choics, and gentoo is about choice. |
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