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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 55
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:25:51
Message-Id: 20080610112543.70cdf2d2@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 55 by Luca Barbato
1 On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:22:03 +0200
2 Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
3 > Tiziano Müller wrote:
4 > > ... and package managers which don't do that already still fail.
5 >
6 > To put everything in perspective all this discussion is done in order
7 > to workaround the issue of an old and outdated package manager that
8 > cannot be upgraded once it syncs from a too new repository.
9 >
10 > The simplest way is to change the syncpoint in the new package
11 > manager and leave the previous uri with a compatibility repo for the
12 > older ones.
13
14 So you're volunteering to convert the entire tree to the new EAPI all
15 in one go every two months?
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 55 Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>