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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:18:33
Message-Id: 4854277B.8010606@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees by "Fernando J. Pereda"
1 Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
2 >
3 > On 14 Jun 2008, at 20:02, Luca Barbato wrote:
4 >> Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
5 >>> On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote:
6 >>>> Bernd Steinhauser wrote:
7 >>>>>>> With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every
8 >>>>>>> 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So:
9 >>>>>>
10 >>>>>> No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one more
11 >>>>>> reason to do. Keep in mind that -9999, -scm ebuild or .live
12 >>>>>> templates aren't for public consumption.
13 >>>>> Except, that it is not that easy.
14 >>>>> The point of time where you have to update your kde deps has
15 >>>>> nothing to do with that.
16 >>>>> This is why we recommend to always reinstall everything from kde svn.
17 >>>>> It is even more likely, that these problems occur after the "bump",
18 >>>>> that shouldn't have been one at all.
19 >>>>
20 >>>> emerge -C @kde-svn
21 >>>>
22 >>>> emerge @kde-svn
23 >>>>
24 >>>> that should suffice.
25 >>> I don't see that working for something like, say, python or glibc.
26 >>
27 >> do you really want to use live ebuild of THOSE?
28 >
29 > Why not?
30
31 mainline glibc usually requires you to fix it or the rest of the world...
32
33 >> (btw they are single packages, emerge =python-9999 works as should)
34 >
35 > So what was your proposal all about?
36
37 Doing something more.
38
39 lu
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43 Luca Barbato
44 Gentoo Council Member
45 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
46 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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