On Dec 12, 2007 4:08 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 14:26 +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > On 12/12/07, Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > > > As I told you before, I wont slot these two. > > > > > > Could you provide a link to reasons that lead you to this decision so > > > that interested readers can make their own opinion? > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159623 > > Again while there might not be technical issues, what is not covered > there in the bug is why rob users of a choice? Why make users mask a 2.0 > version that's in the same slot as a 1.4.x version. Given that both will > be actively maintained.
In short: * It's upstream's choice. * <2 is actively maintained and there's no deprectation planned. * It's not a true drop-in replacement, even if it's fully compatible with all packages in the tree. * In some cases, people could get a benefit of using gpg-1, instead of gpg-2. * There's no need of an eselect module, since gpg2 is supposed to be called gpg2 and not just gpg. * Again, it's upstream choice and, after considering the possibilities, there's no major reason for not following it. What else is needed for using SLOTs? -- Santiago M. Mola Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
