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On Wednesday 27 July 2005 22:19, Alec Joseph Warner wrote: |
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> Gentoo is a distribution and there is some responsibility to provide users |
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> upgrade paths when packages switch versions. Gentoo isn't just portage, |
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> IMHO. |
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Perhaps the first thing you've ever said that I've agreed with right off |
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the bat. ;) |
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The average system would probably have about five new updatable packages |
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every single day. Shouldn't users expect that upgrading them is not going to |
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break things? Isn't that the whole point of ~arch? Excluding the cases where |
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breakage is due to not updating config files, any breakage that may happen |
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from upgrading that can't be dealt with within the limits of an ebuild really |
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must be disseminated(sp?) to the users. |
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Jason Stubbs |
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