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On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:15 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:34:37 -0400 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote: |
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> | Creation of a new categories is fine. pkg moves are bad. |
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> | See the countless other posting on this subject of why pkg |
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> | moves are bad. |
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> Uh, as far as I recall, you've yet to come up with any technical |
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> explanation other than "it breaks one of my pet projects"... The gains |
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> of consistency and manageability far outweigh the minor inconvenience. |
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There is no consistency for end users when stuff keeps getting shuffled |
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around. Portage still can't get it right. 'fixpackages' does not |
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correct the installed vdb content so the problems extend past any of |
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my pet projects. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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