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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE & KEYWORDS relation
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:45:41
Message-Id: 200503021346.33951.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE & KEYWORDS relation by Henrik Brix Andersen
1 On Wednesday 02 March 2005 01:37 pm, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:17 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:
3 > > because previous version had that functionality and users are using it.
4 > > - Put a new version *without* that functionality make users unhappy
5 > > - Don't let disponible a new version because of functionalityes that
6 > > they are not using make that users unappy
7 >
8 > Simple: if you need that particular functionality you must use a version
9 > which include it (meaning: do not use ~ARCH if you are not prepared to
10 > take the consequences).
11
12 yep ... and this is why we have all the files in /etc/portage/ so you can lock
13 in older versions for a while
14
15 if these features are really that critical, why dont you forward port them
16 yourself ? :p
17 -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE & KEYWORDS relation Francesco Riosa <francesco@×××××××××.it>