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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:08:48
Message-Id: 1341054462.3770.2.camel@belkin4
1 I would like to discuss a bit more issues like:
2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087
3
4 Even if there are "a lot" of packages that can cause this breakage when
5 downgraded, I think it should be prevented and package managers
6 shouldn't try to downgrade this kind of packages as they will later
7 cause a total breakage. People is not supposed to know that downgrading
8 some package system will, for example, have an unusable gcc.

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