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Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Brian Harring wrote: |
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>>Said single inheritance protection was added 06/05/06 (rev 3544), |
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>>stabled for x86 roughly 06/22/06. |
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>>Hasn't even yet made it to a release media- meaning folk installing |
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>>from the most current release media still can get bit in the ass by |
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>>switching to an N parent from the get go. |
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> I'm not sure what the probability of people hurting themselves like this is. Perhaps it's a negligible corner case and a note in the upgrade guide will be enough to keep the vast majority of users on the right track. I'd hope that a user would be wise enough to read some docs prior to switching to a new profile with a potentially outdated version of portage. |
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Damn your mail client ;) |
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The past[1] has shown that users don't read docs. |
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[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63400 |
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