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On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:01:41 -0400 |
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Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> Zac Medico wrote: |
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> > Hash: SHA1 |
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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 |
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> > this is. Perhaps it's a negligible corner case and a note in the |
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> > upgrade guide will be enough to keep the vast majority of users on |
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> > the right track. I'd hope that a user would be wise enough to read |
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> > some docs prior to switching to a new profile with a potentially |
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> > outdated version of portage.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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And don't forget the "virtuals" bug. Remember the discussion about repo |
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versioning? These are all use cases for it, so if a new profile format |
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is getting introduced we should really implement that versioning |
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support. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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