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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev]  Re: Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:15:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200505101116.01178.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505091627.28672.vapier@gentoo.org>

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On Monday 09 May 2005 22:27, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 09 May 2005 04:12 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > What about adding a "panic" mode to portage which, when confronted
> > with a missing profile, (and after confirmation) continues to upgrade
> > portage to the latest version it can find with some default settings
> > that should allways work.
>
> looking ahead that's a good idea but for older portages that doesnt
> help at all ... the profiles we're talking about here will break when
> given a cascaded profile

I know. But I'm certain that todays profiles will need to be removed in 
the future. And quite possibly there will be things that break very old 
portage versions.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-10  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-01 10:17 [gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles Donnie Berkholz
2005-05-01 10:35 ` Stuart Longland
2005-05-01 12:31   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-05-01 13:15     ` Ned Ludd
2005-05-02 14:55   ` [gentoo-dev] " Jan Kundrát
2005-05-02 15:53     ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-05-02 16:11       ` Jan Kundrát
2005-05-02 16:33         ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-05-02 16:40           ` Jan Kundrát
2005-05-02 23:55             ` Stuart Longland
2005-05-03  0:45               ` Alec Warner
2005-05-03  0:54                 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-03  1:31                   ` Alec Warner
2005-05-03  6:29               ` Jan Kundrát
2005-05-03  7:05                 ` Stuart Longland
2005-05-03 12:27                   ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-03 15:21           ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-05-03 16:10             ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-03 18:37               ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-05-03 18:49               ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
2005-05-03 21:05                 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-09 20:12                   ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-05-09 20:27                     ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-10  9:15                       ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
2005-05-10  9:31                         ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-05-09 22:23                     ` Brian Harring
2005-05-03 21:20                 ` Marius Mauch
2005-05-04  7:17               ` John Myers
2005-05-01 11:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ned Ludd
2005-05-01 17:11 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-02 13:47   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-03  8:53 ` Aaron Walker
2005-05-03 12:43   ` Jason Stubbs
2005-05-03 13:19   ` Chris Gianelloni

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