From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmK1R-0001PO-GU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:57:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBDNulHF020450; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:56:47 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBDNstaP025384 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:54:56 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EmJyx-0005at-GT for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:54:55 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmJyu-0006Q6-Pq for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:54:52 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:54:50 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates Message-ID: <20051213235450.63dbd021@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200512140844.39644.jstubbs@gentoo.org> References: <20051211013550.66bfd7d2@snowdrop.home> <200512131051.51122.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <20051213221255.GM8629@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <200512140844.39644.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_7HXnooBH92OqVAVq/5O.E0q"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: ae411f41-9f68-4ce2-98a9-5dce1eec3894 X-Archives-Hash: 9204d9c5e6365218d515ad94711b4a87 --Sig_7HXnooBH92OqVAVq/5O.E0q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:44:39 +0900 Jason Stubbs wrote: | Modifications are required to portage anyway. Why postpone it until | after several readers are written and force all of them become broken? Because there isn't a specification saying what the future changes to Portage will be, so supporting said future changes straight off would require a massively over-generalised, over-indirected solution. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_7HXnooBH92OqVAVq/5O.E0q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDn19M96zL6DUtXhERArNvAJ9uWAivw/VF7RrVLv3fvSkv6MG4bQCgw0UV 0IhneCbYMhboivrtMA3hqqQ= =yKc1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_7HXnooBH92OqVAVq/5O.E0q-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list