On Tuesday 18 November 2008 21:51:06 Michael Higgins wrote: > I've often wondered (more and more often now it seems) where I can get a > heads up that the devs are about to cause major pain. Is there such a > beast? > > Never do I see an announcement on the -dev list like, "hey guys, check it > out: next week I'm gonna make perl users maintaining Gentoo servers wish > they used python instead", or something useful like this. '-) > > Any thoughts or insight to this from the list? > > Cheers,
Well, there's this: $ grep -C1 perl /var/portage/profiles/package.mask # Torsten Veller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1 Nov 2008) # Adding new dual-lifed modules for perl-5.10 virtual/perl-Archive-Tar virtual/perl-Class-ISA virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib virtual/perl-Compress-Zlib virtual/perl-Digest-SHA [followed by big long list of stuff] these days I pretty much always read the new stuff at the top of that file after a sync and before emerge world. Reduces surprise a little -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
