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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fg4yQ-0003Sx-8o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:12:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4GJAMNS020179; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:10:22 GMT Received: from mail.net-conex.com (pops.net-conex.com [204.244.176.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4GJ3Nte031256 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 19:03:24 GMT Received: from curie.orbis-terrarum.net (S01060050da688d47.vc.shawcable.net [24.80.100.253]) by mail.net-conex.com (8.13.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k4GIp7ES014540 for ; Tue, 16 May 2006 11:51:07 -0700 Received: (qmail 4623 invoked by uid 10000); 16 May 2006 11:51:12 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:51:12 -0700 From: "Robin H. Johnson" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060516185112.GA2442@curie-int.vc.shawcable.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> 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; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 8a21af9f-cd39-41c7-bbb3-1823ff726b43 X-Archives-Hash: 79a7b2ebebf3d68404029725e380244b --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 04:15:49PM +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote: > Comments? I have no objections to the concept - I would however like very through testing before it's actually committed. Could you please submit the profile as a patch to the mailing list,=20 thus allowing detractors to test cases that they believe it may break. - If it breaks them, then something needs to be done. - If it doesn't break them, then they have no reasonable grounds for reject= ing the patch. I myself have a few cases I'd like to test, on fringe cases of portage behavior. Backwards compatibility is the most important thing with the core portions of the tree - new functionality must always be introduced in such a way that the existing majority does not experience breakage - because they'll make somebodies life hell. --=20 Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85 --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Robbat2 @ Orbis-Terrarum Networks iD8DBQFEah8gPpIsIjIzwiwRAhB8AJ41mvt67VeSJy7+5e2ojS2x52XvEwCguYMn 2O3NffgQPV9POJxYt6hdKB8= =Mv6c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list