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Marius Mauch wrote: [Tue Dec 06 2005, 10:04:53AM CST] |
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> As promised here the GLEP for Manifest2 support: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0044.html |
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You know, I'd actually support a rather more abrupt transition, |
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where we announce that on a particular date all digest files are going |
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to be removed, thereby breaking any version of portage older than |
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portage-x.y.z. Many people would probably miss such a deadline, but |
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assuming that we also publicize how to download and unpack a portage |
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rescue tarball then I would think that the actual pain would be minimal. |
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(Indeed, we could even have a fix-portage.sh script in |
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/usr/portage/scripts that would do the downloading and unpacking, if we |
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wanted to be particularly nice.) Backwards compatibility is nice, but |
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I'd really rather not see good ideas take a year to fully be implemented |
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unless absolutely required. |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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