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On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:49:38 +0000 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> People seem to have started using blockers with package moves recently. |
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> For example, if cat/a is being moved to cat/b, people have started |
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> putting !cat/a as a dependency in cat/b. This is bad, for two reasons. |
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It's bad for a couple more too. No one should be doing this. |
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> Option the first is that people stop writing stupid blockers on package |
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> moves. Unless someone can come up with a convincing reason to keep them |
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> there, this is the option that should be taken, and repoman should |
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> enforce it. |
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Can repoman get at that info? It could be mentioned in |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=5#doc_chap6 |
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fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense |
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toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime |
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