Re: [gentoo-dev] OT noise (Was: Profile masking and profiles package.mask)

["Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@gentoo.org>]

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On Monday 02 October 2006 14:34, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> Diego, a few people from the portage team have said that they dislike
> using version masks in the packages file.  I agree with them completely.
I've already seen I'm in a minority, by liking the current behaviour.

> Unfortunately, as with many 
> things in the portage world, we can't just turn off "old" functionality
> over night due to the amount of system that we would break.  This means
> there needs to be a transition period.
Of course, and that also needs to be properly documented and planned, or we'll 
be facing the same issues in a while again.

I tried to bring the discussion about this a) because I prefer the current 
behaviour b) because at least it's known what's going on.
Seems like I'm the only one liking the current behaviour, so I gladly shut up, 
just wanted to be sure if this was the case (and having something to quote if 
something breaks when the behaviour is switched ;) happens too often not to 
consider this, too).

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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/
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