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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 13-11-2012
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:03:05
Message-Id: 509050A1.8050508@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 13-11-2012 by Ciaran McCreesh
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4 Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
5 > On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:06:30 +0100 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
6 > <chithanh@g.o> wrote:
7 >> The reason why I think that < dependencies are not bad is that
8 >> existing users of such packages will typically simply miss out
9 >> on upgrades.
10 >
11 > No, what will happen is that Portage will perform the upgrades
12 > anyway and break things, since it doesn't check dependencies of
13 > installed packages that aren't part of the resolution.
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15 Do you have a test case for this? I haven't observed this in recent times.
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18 Best regards,
19 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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