From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j22IjfjR004376 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:45:41 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D6Yqp-0002JZ-D5 for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:45:40 +0000 Received: (qmail 6119 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2005 14:14:14 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 2 Mar 2005 14:14:14 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE & KEYWORDS relation Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:46:33 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <4225D23A.4030608@pnpitalia.it> <4225D91F.7070803@pnpitalia.it> <1109788671.4204.5.camel@sponge.fungus> In-Reply-To: <1109788671.4204.5.camel@sponge.fungus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503021346.33951.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 87edead5-a8c1-4fc0-af7c-7546fc94e2c6 X-Archives-Hash: 0c0f2136aad9231d5a66c849cb4b020d 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list