On Monday 02 October 2006 14:34, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Diego, a few people from the portage team have said that they dislike > using version masks in the packages file. I agree with them completely. I've already seen I'm in a minority, by liking the current behaviour.
> Unfortunately, as with many > things in the portage world, we can't just turn off "old" functionality > over night due to the amount of system that we would break. This means > there needs to be a transition period. Of course, and that also needs to be properly documented and planned, or we'll be facing the same issues in a while again. I tried to bring the discussion about this a) because I prefer the current behaviour b) because at least it's known what's going on. Seems like I'm the only one liking the current behaviour, so I gladly shut up, just wanted to be sure if this was the case (and having something to quote if something breaks when the behaviour is switched ;) happens too often not to consider this, too). -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
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