-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/2013 07:46 PM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> we may as well remove support for mixing stable and unstable >> packages. In fact, this will more likely fix a few more bugs! >
It was never "officially" supported. That doesn't mean we have to break it, just because we introduced some misdesigned ideas. Design decisions should be based on what a) makes ebuild development easier and b) benefits the user. Currently there are a lot of things where gentoo devs are forced to follow design decisions that turned out different than expected... and the users pick up the pieces. I'm not saying everything of that was forseeable. But it's slipping out of control. It just took me another 30minutes to update a gentoo box which I do not log into very often. I got trapped between python blockers, multilib blockers, a confused portage with wrong autounmask messages and some other things that could not be resolved automatically at all. Users should not be forced to micro-manage all sorts of stuff for a simple update. But yeah... let's just say we don't support custom useflag settings anymore, because it's so much easier then and would fix a LOT of bugs. Nice going. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSiRnXAAoJEFpvPKfnPDWzBgEH/Ag3/pZohijH0Nn2Vkr3Jq51 RIBsj11zeu0xWO+wztiZgpY6MvnVbondoTZAcx5JIuTqY9RB12oelRl6R0ZtBlSR Q5idRFzO+w2RgUp0bLpD4H4fkV8vrcOcsZlysaz5jnpmHYOMTghGgfd5EgQx4qw3 YQnFUTDzoYBcsY6jbndqWQrWRCekTsUAPPiqZkocEgBOiRu3awLtbVbz5JB5jWRL o/fGpn3d5qEvelTSYLU7R1vqhxAFY6SeYPt/ewCC/tkNlNJJ2NsvSCvfYd6mgUC5 BCnXA9fUGvKqoGhGx2rn+JjgoyBxTvUAQFHEae4aFsKTF4WehvO7Gx53YSo3HIw= =6WzP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
