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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: The big eclasses massacre
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:20:25
Message-Id: 200411072320.00445.carlo@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: The big eclasses massacre by Travis Tilley
1 On Sunday 07 November 2004 23:02, Travis Tilley wrote:
2 > perhaps a versioning system of some sort would be useful there
3 > instead... so that only one copy of any versioned eclass would be in
4 > /var/db/ at any one time. but as for using versioned eclasses in
5 > ebuilds... i can see that becoming pretty ugly pretty quickly. :/
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7 I don't think versioning would make it impossible, that developers break
8 eclasses in a way, that it would only become visible, when a user uninstalls
9 an ebuild with certain versioned eclasses in use.
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11 Brian's idea was to store the whole environment.
12 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46223#c7
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15 Carsten