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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unmasking modular X
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:42:40
Message-Id: 20060131193943.06a4224f@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unmasking modular X by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:41:36 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
2 <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
3 | Mark Loeser wrote:
4 | > We are talking about completely unrelated versions, not what we are
5 | > touching. For example, old imagemagick ebuilds sitting around,
6 | > where the newer ebuilds are fixed, but old ones are not. We have a
7 | > security bug open about this package right now, and having an error
8 | > about deps in some old version doesn't really help arch teams at
9 | > all.
10 |
11 | Oh, so we just screw up people using modular X on a stable system by
12 | breaking the latest stable ebuild..
13
14 It shouldn't be a critical error. Criticals make it very hard for
15 people to fix other legitimate issues.
16
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18 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium)
19 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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