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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-alt] Re: [PREFIX] removal of interrevisions
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:16:46
Message-Id: 20171130101639.GC1505@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Re: [PREFIX] removal of interrevisions by Fabian Groffen
1 FYI: I broke my own rule yesterday, so I guess we DO need interrevisions
2 afterall.
3
4 Fabian
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7 On 27-11-2017 14:43:00 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
8 > On 27-11-2017 14:31:29 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
9 > > Hi Fabian,
10 > >
11 > > On 11/27/2017 11:07 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
12 > > > Hi all,
13 > > >
14 > > > I've just finished removing all few remaining interrevisions (-r0.XY)
15 > > > ebuilds from the prefix tree.
16 > > >
17 > > > In the next Portage release, interrevision support will be removed.
18 > >
19 > > Please don't!
20 >
21 > Ok!
22 >
23 > > > I believe we no longer need to modify ebuilds so often, and keeping this
24 > > > feature is now a deviation from mainline which we better avoid.
25 > >
26 > > Although I've not managed yet to submit as GLEP or so, having interrevisions
27 > > is quite important to me - and for a meta distribution in general I believe.
28 >
29 > [snipping reasons as to why interrevisions are useful]
30 >
31 > Would it be acceptable to "ban" the interrevisions from the prefix-tree,
32 > but keep support in Prefix Portage?
33 >
34 > Thanks,
35 > Fabian
36 >
37 > --
38 > Fabian Groffen
39 > Gentoo on a different level
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44 Fabian Groffen
45 Gentoo on a different level

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