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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> |
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>> User installs foo-1.1-r1 |
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>> Developer makes foo-1.1-r1.1 |
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>> foo-1.1* is removed from the tree |
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>> User syncs |
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> |
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> An updates-like mechanism would help here, since the updates could |
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> persist longer. |
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Unfortunately, this is not an option: |
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I assure you that you do not want to keep the updates |
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in dependencies forever; their number is simply too large. |
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This would mean the portage tree will keep growing in an |
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insane manner: It "almost" means to force every user to |
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keep the *full* CVS (or in future maybe git) repository. |
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