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On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:47:06 -0700 |
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"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:43:38PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > Utterly illegal, needs to die. |
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> Why? I don't agree that it needs to be the global useflags, but I |
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> don't consider it illegal either. |
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It's illegal. Generated metadata must be constant and can't vary based |
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upon user configuration, because if it does the package manager will |
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show the wrong information at --pretend time. See bug #24439, for |
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example. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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