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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 20:25:11
Message-Id: 200505091627.28672.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Monday 09 May 2005 04:12 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > What about adding a "panic" mode to portage which, when confronted with a
3 > missing profile, (and after confirmation) continues to upgrade portage to
4 > the latest version it can find with some default settings that should
5 > allways work.
6
7 looking ahead that's a good idea but for older portages that doesnt help at
8 all ... the profiles we're talking about here will break when given a
9 cascaded profile
10 -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>