On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:24:19 +0200 Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Also, keep in mind that with an external utility you have far less > control on what is executed than with something in $PORTDIR: people may > use an older buggy version of the utility, while when shipping it in > $PORTDIR you are sure that the version is up to date. Conversely ... you can't force people to use a specific version of portage. But you can force a dependency on a newer version of the external utility if the package needs to.
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