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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: zmedico@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:09:33
Message-Id: 20180710200923.GA21918@linux1.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree by Zac Medico
1 On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 03:54:35PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 07/09/2018 03:27 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote:
3 > > On 09/07/18 23:12, Zac Medico wrote:
4 > >> On 07/09/2018 02:34 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
5 > >>> I'd mostly argue any such change should only affect new systems
6 > >>>
7 > >> Yes, changing defaults for existing systems would be annoying.
8 > >>
9 > >> My recommendation is to have catalyst set the new defaults in the stage
10 > >> tarballs.
11 > >>
12 > >> When sys-apps/portage changes its internal defaults, I'd like for the
13 > >> upgrade process to call a tool that generates configuration files when
14 > >> necessary to ensure that the existing paths remain constant.
15 > > I think it should be possible for RelEng to make a start on catalyst
16 > > updates - is there anything that would inhibit going ahead with this,
17 > > potentially?
18 >
19 > No, nothing. Whatever catalyst puts it the default config will become
20 > our new default.
21
22 I would still like to see notice about what the new defaults are and how
23 to migrate current systems to them.
24
25
26 Thanks,
27
28 William
29
30 > --
31 > Thanks,
32 > Zac
33 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: moving default location of portage tree "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>