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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 22:12:57
Message-Id: 29b55e16-bb2e-5a98-13e2-e1482441b417@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 On 07/09/2018 02:34 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
2 >
3 > I'd mostly argue any such change should only affect new systems
4 >
5
6 Yes, changing defaults for existing systems would be annoying.
7
8 My recommendation is to have catalyst set the new defaults in the stage
9 tarballs.
10
11 When sys-apps/portage changes its internal defaults, I'd like for the
12 upgrade process to call a tool that generates configuration files when
13 necessary to ensure that the existing paths remain constant.
14 --
15 Thanks,
16 Zac

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