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Markos Chandras posted on Wed, 11 May 2011 15:27:48 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> To my perspective, split ebuilds ease the integration of patches. You |
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> can patch a single ebuild and not have to rebuild everything else. But, |
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> when it comes to version bumps, I think it is more safe to bump |
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> everything. Do note that we apply patches more frequently than we do |
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> version bumps, so it is definitely worth the pain of having split |
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> ebuilds. |
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That was another reason given, and it still makes sense, as does the |
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safety of bumping everything together (no revdep-rebuild issues that way). |
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Thanks for the reminder. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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