Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:12:16
Message-Id: 20061031160616.40fe197f@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees by Stuart Herbert
1 On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:02:46 +0100 "Stuart Herbert"
2 <stuart.herbert@×××××.com> wrote:
3 | 2) Or, remove the older versions from the tree after a suitable
4 | waiting period (say, 3 months for arguments sake). This will keep
5 | package maintainers happy, and our users (less cruft in the tree to
6 | rsync and metadata-cache), but causes real trouble for minority
7 | arches.
8
9 Users are generally not happy when they see big flashy !!! error
10 messages when trying to update their systems...
11
12 --
13 Ciaran McCreesh
14 Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org
15 Web : http://ciaranm.org/
16 as-needed is broken : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=13

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature