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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] use.force and package.use.force (bug #142853)
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:56:06
Message-Id: 44D761C3.1030903@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] use.force and package.use.force (bug #142853) by Brian Harring
1 >> Brian, default USE in IUSE is not a backwards compatable change and this
2 >> is easier ;)
3 >
4 > An EAPI bump is pretty simple from where I'm sitting, and implementing
5 > it isn't all that hard.
6 >
7 > Meanwhile, the question should be "which is desirable", not "which can
8 > I glue in quickest" ;)
9 >
10 > ~harring
11
12 This is reality, not the ideal; and implementing a dep resolver like you
13 wanted IS hard, thats why it took you and stubbs a ton of time figuring
14 out what you wanted and then implementing it.
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] use.force and package.use.force (bug #142853) Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>