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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] summary: proposed solutions to arches/stable problem
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:09:40
Message-Id: 200406230109.29631.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] summary: proposed solutions to arches/stable problem by Donnie Berkholz
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4 On Tuesday 22 June 2004 23:54, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
5 > Aron Griffis said:
6 > > The only thing I really dislike about the "marked keyword"
7 > > approach is that it requires changes in the *user's* portage to
8 > > handle the marking. But only solutions III and IV avoid that so
9 > > far.
10 >
11 > This is really a pretty annoying problem. As far as I can see, it would
12 > require some hacking backwards compatibility fake profiles to exist at
13 > "default-+x86-1.4" and so forth to avoid breaking everyone's systems with
14 > old portages.
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16 Could you explain this, Donnie - please!? I'm not that deep into portage, that
17 I know, what has to be changed in profiles and why it is a that big problem,
18 that they could not be migrated smoothly.
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20 Just had another thought about the "re-arranging arch" option. How do you
21 implement this in a differend backend, e.g. a database, Aron?
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24 Carsten
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