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 (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j37Fc7Vf014330 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:38:07 GMT Received: from p061198140167.ppp.prin.ne.jp ([61.198.140.167] helo=linux.box) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DJZ53-0006qn-Fb for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:38:06 +0000 Received: by linux.box (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5D4A046DA3; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:38:09 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtuals revisited (Round 3) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:38:09 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200504072220.43924.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <200504080017.32939.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <20050407162429.6a1a2372@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <20050407162429.6a1a2372@snowdrop> 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@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504080038.09045.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: e1d48e4a-a589-48c7-b907-03e3938ec549 X-Archives-Hash: c071a077b44e296dcafe4f8a49da5506 On Friday 08 April 2005 00:24, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:17:32 +0900 Jason Stubbs > wrote: > | > AFAIK, virtual can't be removed from categories either... > | > | Can fix this for portage-2.0.51.20. > > We're gonna need another one of those "all users *must* upgrade portage > to at least 2.0.51.20" notices? As soon as this gets implemented, anyone > who syncs with an old version of portage is screwed (hence my original > dep comment before I realised how nasty the error actually was). We're talking at least 12 months between 2.0.51.20 and a public version of portage implementing this GLEP. Specifically, looking at it for 2.2.0. So not only will it be in the latest stable release of two major versions back, there will also be a complete interim major version that will support it the whole way through. Regards, Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list