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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: ulm@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] obs eclasses
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:40:12
Message-Id: 20110913194050.5bdbb16f@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] obs eclasses by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:25:59 +0200
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > >>>>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
5 >
6 > > Thanks for the reminder; I looked, and it turns out that we now have
7 > > a great precedent.
8 >
9 > > Quoting PMS:
10 >
11 > > "The required bash version was retroactively updated from 3.0 to 3.2
12 > > in November 2009 (see http://www.gentoo.
13 > > org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20091109.txt)."
14 >
15 > > So we could just retroactively update it again and let people scream
16 > > if they're actually affected by this.
17 >
18 > If you read the quoted council log, you'll find that the retroactive
19 > change was done because usage of bash 3.2 features in the tree was
20 > already widespread at that time. This is very different from the
21 > current situation, therefore it is not at all a precedent.
22
23 The current situation is that you can't even install bash-3.2
24 systemwide because of the number of packages [ebuilds/eclasses]
25 requiring on bash-4.
26
27 I myself had to prefix-install bash to test my code against it.
28
29 --
30 Best regards,
31 Michał Górny

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