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From: Francesco Riosa <francesco@×××××××××.it>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE & KEYWORDS relation
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:54:36
Message-Id: 42260BF2.2050706@pnpitalia.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE & KEYWORDS relation by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger ha scritto:
2
3 >On Wednesday 02 March 2005 01:37 pm, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:17 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>>because previous version had that functionality and users are using it.
10 >>>- Put a new version *without* that functionality make users unhappy
11 >>>- Don't let disponible a new version because of functionalityes that
12 >>>they are not using make that users unappy
13 >>>
14 >>>
15 >>Simple: if you need that particular functionality you must use a version
16 >>which include it (meaning: do not use ~ARCH if you are not prepared to
17 >>take the consequences).
18 >>
19 >>
20 >
21 >yep ... and this is why we have all the files in /etc/portage/ so you can lock
22 >in older versions for a while
23 >
24 >
25 In this case iptables-1.3 is missing, it's not a old version, it's the
26 new one :p since I'm using a plain iptables I've modified the old one
27 and used that to install the 1.3 version.
28 see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80556
29
30 >if these features are really that critical, why dont you forward port them
31 >yourself ? :p
32 >-mike
33 >
34 >
35 Because I miss know-how on that window. :-(
36
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