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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New category: net-voip
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:22:59
Message-Id: 1153246717.31239.28.camel@onyx
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: New category: net-voip by Stefan Schweizer
1 On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:51 +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
2 > Ned Ludd wrote:
3 > > Creation of a new categories is fine. pkg moves are bad.
4 > > See the countless other posting on this subject of why pkg
5 > > moves are bad.
6 > yeah new packages is my primary concern.
7 >
8 > >> Any objections, problems with the plan, comments?
9 > >
10 > > Sure I'll step up and say I object to the part of your plan which
11 > > involves a shitton of pkgmoves. Moving pkgs from existing categories
12 > > into another category causes numerous problems that portage can't solve
13 > > as easy as the rest of us might think so please just don't do that
14 > > part. I've got no objection to the creation of a new category for *new*
15 > > packages.
16 >
17 > I talked with you in IRC about this more. We will do the package moves only
18 > when a bump occurs and will make sure that stable as well as ~arch get an
19 > updated ebuild.
20
21 Sweet/Thanks that works and provides a clear path to upgrade/bump.
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