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From: Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] 'Gentoo in 2020' summary
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2021 12:55:16
Message-Id: 2FACD16B-B1D9-45CF-A1A6-238A8FADBDAD@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] [RFC] 'Gentoo in 2020' summary by "Michał Górny"
1 On January 3, 2021 8:35:50 AM UTC, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
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3 >I think it would be really great if we could publish a summary of
4 >(good) things that happened in Gentoo in 2020.
5 [...]
6 >WDYT?
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8 Good idea! At the risk of being accused of blowing my own trumpet, I would like to begin with:
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10 [slotted-lua] **Made it possible to bind packages depending on Lua to specific versions of this language**
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12 Thanks to the new eclasses "lua" and "lua-single", it is now possible to not only have multiple Implementations of Lua installed side by side but to bind their reverse dependencies to specific versions. With almost all Lua reverse dependencies having been migrated to these eclasses by Christmas Eve they have already been released to ~arch users, with stabilisation expected to take place by the end of 1Q 2021.
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15 (editorial improvements welcome)
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17 --
18 Marecki

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Re: [gentoo-project] [RFC] 'Gentoo in 2020' summary "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>