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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:02:57 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> |
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| On Sunday 26 February 2006 22:40, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > The issue is whether you have the right to leave broken packages in |
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| > the tree. I don't see any policy document granting you that right. |
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| The general consensus over the years has been that if something |
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| cannot be fixed due to portage problems, then we do what necessary to |
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| warn users about it, but keep the package. In this regard also look |
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| at various dependency cycles, and/or use flag dependencies. |
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The general consensus has been to implement the best available |
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workaround, if one is doable, and just remove the thing where it's not. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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