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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:03:12
Message-Id: 485407C2.9080906@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees by "Fernando J. Pereda"
1 Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
2 >
3 > On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote:
4 >
5 >> Bernd Steinhauser wrote:
6 >>>>> With your approach, we would have to fix the version after every
7 >>>>> 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So:
8 >>>>
9 >>>> No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one more
10 >>>> reason to do. Keep in mind that -9999, -scm ebuild or .live
11 >>>> templates aren't for public consumption.
12 >>> Except, that it is not that easy.
13 >>> The point of time where you have to update your kde deps has nothing
14 >>> to do with that.
15 >>> This is why we recommend to always reinstall everything from kde svn.
16 >>> It is even more likely, that these problems occur after the "bump",
17 >>> that shouldn't have been one at all.
18 >>
19 >> emerge -C @kde-svn
20 >>
21 >> emerge @kde-svn
22 >>
23 >> that should suffice.
24 >
25 > I don't see that working for something like, say, python or glibc.
26
27 do you really want to use live ebuild of THOSE?
28
29 (btw they are single packages, emerge =python-9999 works as should)
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31 lu
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35 Luca Barbato
36 Gentoo Council Member
37 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
38 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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