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On Sat, 16 May 2009 02:31:45 +0300 |
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Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On the other hand you also have to make sure you have a stable |
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> > portage for a time long enough so mostly everyone has it installed. |
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> > Otherwise you could break users systems pretty badly depending on |
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> > the packages. And Arch-Teams usually do a pretty good job in |
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> > catching such cases. |
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> How would this breakage happen? The ebuild in the vdb still has the |
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> old EAPI. |
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Portage likes to use metadata from the tree version of things even if |
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there's also a version installed. This is a major nuisance, but is |
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unfortunately considered a feature. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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