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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@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 00:03:33
Message-Id: 509055EC.6020801@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 13-11-2012 by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
1 On 10/30/2012 03:11 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
2 > Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
3 >> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:06:30 +0100 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
4 >> <chithanh@g.o> wrote:
5 >>> The reason why I think that < dependencies are not bad is that
6 >>> existing users of such packages will typically simply miss out
7 >>> on upgrades.
8 >
9 >> No, what will happen is that Portage will perform the upgrades
10 >> anyway and break things, since it doesn't check dependencies of
11 >> installed packages that aren't part of the resolution.
12 >
13 > Do you have a test case for this? I haven't observed this in recent times.
14
15 It should not be an issue since portage-2.1.10.21, which had the
16 --complete-graph-if-new-ver enabled by default:
17
18 http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=2733ea17d8e25db8dd369e8890337ddb553e2509
19 --
20 Thanks,
21 Zac