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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] First (experimental) 17.1 profiles news item for review (v2)
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:18:04
Message-Id: CAJ0EP40vZwVa3V7QF2hUbKmdJjORegMfzaLC7w5JWFb=HfSgtQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] First (experimental) 17.1 profiles news item for review (v2) by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 11:28 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
2 > Reading the bug (506276), it seems to me it's all about /supporting/
3 > symlink=no, discussing migration scripts to make it possible to migrate
4 > existing installations, etc, not /mandating/ it.
5 >
6 > I don't see anything suggesting that vapier, or anyone else for that
7 > matter, decided it was going to be the _only_ choice, just that it would
8 > eventually be _a_ choice.
9
10 On 2014-03-31, vapier changed the bug summary to "kill SYMLINK_LIB=yes
11 support". I'm not sure how else that could be interpreted.