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From: Vlastimil Babka <caster@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is it time for bash-3?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:54:52
Message-Id: 4530183C.9070705@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is it time for bash-3? by Marius Mauch
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4 Marius Mauch wrote:
5 > In that case adding >=bash-3 to "system" isn't sufficient. I'll leave
6 > the detailed explanation to Brian, but the only thing you can rely on
7 > in the ebuild environment is what the used portage version has in it's
8 > dep strings when it was merged.
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10 Isn't that true only for stuff in ebuild's global scope?
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12 > Not that it has much practical relevance given the age of bash-3
13 > and things depending on it (don't think anybody is still on bash-2),
14 > but adding it to "system" wouldn't help those people.
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16 This reminded me of this bug [1] we once got about OSX having only 2.59,
17 not sure if that still holds.
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19 [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139899
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22 Vlastimil Babka (Caster)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Is it time for bash-3? Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>