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From: "Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:21:53
Message-Id: 9458F6D5-A53C-4AC4-87D5-BFD22B98A7DC@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees by Luca Barbato
1 On 14 Jun 2008, at 22:18, Luca Barbato wrote:
2
3 > Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
4 >> On 14 Jun 2008, at 20:02, Luca Barbato wrote:
5 >>> Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
6 >>>> On 14 Jun 2008, at 19:36, Luca Barbato wrote:
7 >>>>> Bernd Steinhauser wrote:
8 >>>>>>>> With your approach, we would have to fix the version after
9 >>>>>>>> every 4.1.x release. That sounds awful, tbh. So:
10 >>>>>>>
11 >>>>>>> No that enforce people update the deps or at least gives one
12 >>>>>>> more reason to do. Keep in mind that -9999, -scm ebuild
13 >>>>>>> or .live templates aren't for public consumption.
14 >>>>>> Except, that it is not that easy.
15 >>>>>> The point of time where you have to update your kde deps has
16 >>>>>> nothing to do with that.
17 >>>>>> This is why we recommend to always reinstall everything from
18 >>>>>> kde svn.
19 >>>>>> It is even more likely, that these problems occur after the
20 >>>>>> "bump", that shouldn't have been one at all.
21 >>>>>
22 >>>>> emerge -C @kde-svn
23 >>>>>
24 >>>>> emerge @kde-svn
25 >>>>>
26 >>>>> that should suffice.
27 >>>> I don't see that working for something like, say, python or glibc.
28 >>>
29 >>> do you really want to use live ebuild of THOSE?
30 >> Why not?
31 >
32 > mainline glibc usually requires you to fix it or the rest of the
33 > world...
34
35 What?
36
37
38 >>> (btw they are single packages, emerge =python-9999 works as should)
39 >> So what was your proposal all about?
40 >
41 > Doing something more.
42
43 How is using 9999 versions 'doing something more'?
44
45 - ferdy
46
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A few questions to our nominees Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>