On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I love my Gentoo-devs, but what is the train of thought here? >> skype-2.2.0.35-r1 was ~amd64 yesterday. It's installed and working >> fine. Today 2.2.0.35-r99 is ~amd64, which is perfectly fine, but >> they've completely removed -r1 and now I'm required to unmask >> emulation packages that only came out today? That doesn't seem quite >> right... >> >> Why did they completely get rid of -r1? That should stick around for a >> little while after -r99 becomes ~amd64, shouldn't it? >> >> - Mark <SNIP> > > -r1 had a security problem. You should unmask the emulation packages > and continue the update process. Look at the ChangeLog so see what > changed. Both versions are ~amd64 so I don't understand your complain > about keeping -r1 in the tree for a while. > > Markos >
Thanks Markos. That's likely what I'll do, although the alternative I'm looking at for now is possibly getting -r1 from an overlay. I didn't think I was _complaining_. I was just asking what the train of thought was that leads them to do this sort of thing. Everything in the world has a security problem. We know they are either found or not found. Unmasking 8 emulation libraries that have _yesterdays_ date in their names, and therefore makes them quite new, may: 1) Create more security problems 2) Create issues with other programs that use the libraries. Anyway, thanks for the response. I'll either unmask or use an overlay. Cheers, Mark
