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From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Manifest2 format
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:16:21
Message-Id: 20051207030932.GA10111@cerberus.oppresses.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Manifest2 format by Grant Goodyear
1 On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:39:03PM -0600, Grant Goodyear wrote:
2 > Marius Mauch wrote: [Tue Dec 06 2005, 10:04:53AM CST]
3 > > As promised here the GLEP for Manifest2 support:
4 > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0044.html
5 >
6 > You know, I'd actually support a rather more abrupt transition,
7 > where we announce that on a particular date all digest files are going
8 > to be removed, thereby breaking any version of portage older than
9 > portage-x.y.z. Many people would probably miss such a deadline, but
10 > assuming that we also publicize how to download and unpack a portage
11 > rescue tarball then I would think that the actual pain would be minimal.
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14 Haven't been to #gentoo lately have you? :)
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