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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: "Environement categories" (was Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:30:06
Message-Id: 20060125072601.GA8041@nightcrawler.had1.or.comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: "Environement categories" (was Re: [gentoo-dev] fix binary debug support, part elevenity billion 1/2) by Mike Frysinger
1 On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:06:12PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 01:44, Brian Harring wrote:
3 > > Might I suggest this one just get shelved for a while?
4 >
5 > everything that gets shelved portage way stays that way for *quite* a while
6
7 If people don't give a damn about it, yes, that's true. Not the case
8 here.
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11 > i would be ok with implementing the back end (i.e. FEATURES=debug-build) but
12 > putting off the front end (i.e. emerge --debug-build)
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14 Front-end doesn't matter, it's the back-end that's the concern. Clean
15 up the backend in stable, and it's fine- hence the "shelve it"; fix
16 the backend instead of tagging it half way in.
17
18 ~harring

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