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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:46:55
Message-Id: 20070903043655.bf4112e2.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007 by Andrew Gaffney
1 On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:11:40 -0500
2 Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Ryan Hill wrote:
5 > > Lars Weiler wrote:
6 > >> * Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> [07/09/02 17:44 -0600]:
7 > >>> plan on doing version-specific masks in the future unless someone
8 > >>> can come up with a good argument for it.
9 > >> Slots?
10 > >
11 > > That's a good argument.
12 >
13 > I'm not so sure. The last rites have historically always been for
14 > complete removals of a package from the tree. Is there any reason to
15 > change it?
16
17 Well, different slots and different packages can be considered to be the
18 same on many levels. So the removal of all versions for a specific slot
19 could be seen as the removal of a package in some cases.
20
21 Marius
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007 Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>