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From: "Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:07:16
Message-Id: 29F25386-FA80-4AC1-A797-82DD1585FBFB@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees by Luca Barbato
1 On 14 Jun 2008, at 20:02, Luca Barbato wrote:
2 > Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
3 >> On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote:
4 >>> Bernd Steinhauser wrote:
5 >>>>>> With your approach, we would have to fix the version after
6 >>>>>> every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So:
7 >>>>>
8 >>>>> No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one
9 >>>>> more reason to do. Keep in mind that -9999, -scm ebuild or .live
10 >>>>> templates aren't for public consumption.
11 >>>> Except, that it is not that easy.
12 >>>> The point of time where you have to update your kde deps has
13 >>>> nothing to do with that.
14 >>>> This is why we recommend to always reinstall everything from kde
15 >>>> svn.
16 >>>> It is even more likely, that these problems occur after the
17 >>>> "bump", that shouldn't have been one at all.
18 >>>
19 >>> emerge -C @kde-svn
20 >>>
21 >>> emerge @kde-svn
22 >>>
23 >>> that should suffice.
24 >> I don't see that working for something like, say, python or glibc.
25 >
26 > do you really want to use live ebuild of THOSE?
27
28 Why not?
29
30 > (btw they are single packages, emerge =python-9999 works as should)
31
32 So what was your proposal all about?
33
34 - ferdy
35
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>