Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Atom matching behavior

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 31 July 2006 21:30, Brian Harring wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:11:35PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Monday 31 July 2006 18:48, Brian Harring wrote:
> > > Should be discussed on -dev, not here imo;
> >
> > why ?  short term we're gaining functionality:
> > simply add .*
>
> 1) portage isn't the only package manager

invalid reason

until a spec exists. portage's behavior is the spec

> 2) it's not a backwards compatible change

so ?  same way any new feature gets merged: support it now, dont use it till 
later
-mike