From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE & KEYWORDS relation
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:46:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503021346.33951.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1109788671.4204.5.camel@sponge.fungus>
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 01:37 pm, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:17 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> > because previous version had that functionality and users are using it.
> > - Put a new version *without* that functionality make users unhappy
> > - Don't let disponible a new version because of functionalityes that
> > they are not using make that users unappy
>
> Simple: if you need that particular functionality you must use a version
> which include it (meaning: do not use ~ARCH if you are not prepared to
> take the consequences).
yep ... and this is why we have all the files in /etc/portage/ so you can lock
in older versions for a while
if these features are really that critical, why dont you forward port them
yourself ? :p
-mike
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-02 14:48 [gentoo-dev] USE & KEYWORDS relation Francesco Riosa
2005-03-02 15:02 ` Simon Stelling
2005-03-02 15:17 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-03-02 18:37 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-03-02 18:46 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2005-03-02 18:54 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-03-02 15:18 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2005-03-02 18:07 ` Colin Kingsley
2005-03-02 18:41 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-03-02 19:34 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-03-02 19:47 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-03-02 20:11 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-03-02 21:30 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-03-02 19:37 ` Simon Stelling
2005-03-02 19:44 ` Francesco Riosa
2005-03-03 5:35 ` Colin Kingsley
2005-03-03 9:16 ` Francesco Riosa
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