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On Thursday 02 March 2006 21:51, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 21:38:33 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> |
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> | Then explain people that doing this is not the way. |
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> Have done, repeatedly, as have many others. |
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> | And is it really a qualityissue? In all cases? There must be cases |
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> | where the problem is package + arch + useflag specific, and this |
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> | solution "solves" it. |
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> This is most definitely a quality issue in cases where it is misused. |
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> See my reply to Grobian for why it's a huge problem. And yes, there are |
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> legit cases of using !arch? inside DEPEND, which is what makes it even |
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> harder to detect deliberate repoman circumvention. |
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I've read your explanation in the other reply. I agree with you that it is |
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indeed an issue. |
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Paul |
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ps. The explanation was clear to me. |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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