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On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 09:43 +0100, Steve Long wrote: |
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> > It works on stable systems, since gnupg is still slotted there: |
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> > 1.4.7-r1 in slot 0 |
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> > 1.9.21 in slot 1.9 |
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> Er ok, but i'm guessing Mr Thomson wanted to have both available as separate |
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> packages similar to those binary distros gentoo is supposedly able to spit |
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> out (since it is a meta-distro.) |
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Nope |
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Slotting accomplishes what is needed to resolve this for now. As |
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mentioned it was slotted before gnupg-2, and for some reason the slot |
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was dropped when gnupg-2 was committed to tree. Day one I ran into the |
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problem, I requested it remain slotted. There has been opposition ever |
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since. |
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Not to mention I have never been provided any factual or technical |
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reasons why we should provide gnupg-2 only. Best I got was personal |
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preference of the developers managing the gnugp package. |
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By the way, did I mention this causes depgraph issues, since day one? |
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Which are only resolved by masking gnupg-2, or etc. |
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Also we are currently symlinking gpg -> gpg2, and gpg2 doesn't support |
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all the arguments and etc of gpg2. Since gnugp-2 does not support all |
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features of gnupg-1. The symlink is a hack to try to avoid needed both. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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