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On Tuesday 18 November 2008 21:51:06 Michael Higgins wrote: |
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> I've often wondered (more and more often now it seems) where I can get a |
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> heads up that the devs are about to cause major pain. Is there such a |
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> beast? |
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> Never do I see an announcement on the -dev list like, "hey guys, check it |
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> out: next week I'm gonna make perl users maintaining Gentoo servers wish |
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> they used python instead", or something useful like this. '-) |
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> Any thoughts or insight to this from the list? |
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> Cheers, |
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Well, there's this: |
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$ grep -C1 perl /var/portage/profiles/package.mask |
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# Torsten Veller <tove@g.o> (1 Nov 2008) |
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# Adding new dual-lifed modules for perl-5.10 |
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virtual/perl-Archive-Tar |
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virtual/perl-Class-ISA |
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virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib |
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virtual/perl-Compress-Zlib |
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virtual/perl-Digest-SHA |
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[followed by big long list of stuff] |
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these days I pretty much always read the new stuff at the top of that file |
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after a sync and before emerge world. Reduces surprise a little |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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