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From: "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 22:27:45
Message-Id: 8b47a97d-37be-652a-0298-7e7082506b53@iee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree by Zac Medico
1 On 09/07/18 23:12, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 07/09/2018 02:34 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
3 >> I'd mostly argue any such change should only affect new systems
4 >>
5 > Yes, changing defaults for existing systems would be annoying.
6 >
7 > My recommendation is to have catalyst set the new defaults in the stage
8 > tarballs.
9 >
10 > When sys-apps/portage changes its internal defaults, I'd like for the
11 > upgrade process to call a tool that generates configuration files when
12 > necessary to ensure that the existing paths remain constant.
13 I think it should be possible for RelEng to make a start on catalyst
14 updates - is there anything that would inhibit going ahead with this,
15 potentially?
16
17 MJE

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>