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On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:54, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > While I agree that SLOT's are not perfect, they were created to solve |
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> > this problem too. If another working solution is found, that is ok |
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> > for me too. But I don't want to just find my binary stops working |
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> > because some of its libraries were removed from under it. Those |
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> > libraries can coexist, so we should keep them to give users an |
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> > opportunity to upgrade their applications to the new one. Only at |
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> > that point do they become inappropriate. |
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> so you preserve the lib with the preserve_old_lib* functions in |
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> eutils.eclass |
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While this also does not stand any chance to win a beauty contest, this |
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would also be acceptable to me. The only thing I want is things not |
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starting to fail without a good reason. A new version of a library is on |
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itself not a good enough reason. |
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Paul |
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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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