From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6685 invoked by uid 1002); 23 May 2003 12:04:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4627 invoked from network); 23 May 2003 12:04:23 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 13:52:32 +0200 From: Henti Smith To: Dhruba Bandopadhyay Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030523135232.7ddba9da.bain@tcsn.co.za> In-Reply-To: <3ECE0D96.8040609@codewordt.co.uk> References: <1053653430.29351.21.camel@mcvaio.liquidx.net> <200305231006.55635.pauldv@gentoo.org> <3ECE0D96.8040609@codewordt.co.uk> Organization: The Computer Smith Networks X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] common ebuild mistakes X-Archives-Salt: 33045323-8398-486d-87df-6ba58bc1876e X-Archives-Hash: 5f7eb22ceaf7285e2ef5a8852c5324b1 On Fri, 23 May 2003 13:01:26 +0100 Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > - Please please, do not submit ebuilds for version bumps unless necessary and > > if necessary tell us what changed. > > Version bump only when necessary? What does this mean? Isn't keeping > up to date a basic requirement to maintain a modern tree? I agree .... if this was that case I would still be using slackware or something since I can "update" the packaes I have installed when "needed" I use gentoo so I can get the latest mplayer a few days after it comes out etc etc otherwise whats the point of having gentoo and portage .. ? Henti -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list