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On Mon, 18 May 2009 19:15:59 +0200 |
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Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@××××××.fm> wrote: |
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> Not sure who is 'we' there, but Portage team already made is useful. |
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> Basic portage rule for soft-blocks behaviour is "no longer referenced |
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> (a'ka 'soft') blocked package can be uninstalled cleanly without user |
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> intervention" |
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That's not in the least bit well defined, and it's also extremely |
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dangerous. |
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> Zac did good job there saving users (especially KDE users) from |
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> nightmare of handling all package refactoring/blocks manually. |
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The nightmare only existed because of abuse of that feature. Had blocks |
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kept their original meaning, people would not have abused them to the |
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same extent. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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