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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 17:11 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>>>> If there are no objections then I don't so any reason not to go ahead and add |
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>>>> the manifest1_obsolete sometime in the near future. Thoughts? |
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>>> Let's do it. I look forward to a lot less inodes on my disks. |
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>> Let's schedule a date for it then and we can have a big announcement |
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>> to let everyone know. |
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> Dammit. |
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> I wanted this before January 31st, so it would make it into the 2008.0 |
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> snapshot. Do we think we can get this done by January 31st? |
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Would be great. |
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> I think so. One reason that I think that we don't need to wait very |
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> long is rather simple. People running very old versions of portage that |
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> will be affected by this are also not likely to read our news or see our |
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> front page on a regular basis. They're likely to get broken, no matter |
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> what we do. Hell, even posting it to the GMN/forums/lists/planet/front |
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> page, we'll still end up getting complaints from these people when they |
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> come back $months from now and the news is no longer sticky in the |
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> forums, has rotated off the front page, isn't even a distant memory on |
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> the lists, and is in a several month old newsletter. |
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Sounds logical. |
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> I think throwing up an announcement today/tomorrow for Thursday/Friday |
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> should be sufficient for this sort of a change, as it won't affect any |
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> user who has a version of portage released in the past ~1.5 years. |
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Caster |
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