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From: James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 22:05:55
Message-Id: m37g3yrr72.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] old "masked for testing" entries by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> "MG" == Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> writes:
2
3 MG> Dnia 2014-06-30, o godz. 17:40:16
4 MG> James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> napisał(a):
5
6 >> So it should be fine to unmask 5.3 and slowly update reverse
7 >> dependencies to depend on 5.3 instead of whichever 4.x they
8 >> currently demand.
9
10 >> Unmasking the earlier 5.x releases seems unnecessary, though.
11
12 MG> While at it, please don't unmask <5.3.28-r1 (EAPI<5 ebuilds). Multilib
13 MG> relies heavily on not having anything EAPI<5 over 4.8.30-r1.
14
15 Good point. I should have more precise and said "the most recent ebuild
16 in the 5.3 SLOT", which is what I was thinking.
17
18 -JimC
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20 -JimC
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