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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:54:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080128185420.48e3ac97@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479E180B.60203@gentoo.org>

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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:59:39 +0200
Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote:
> BSD, prefix etc. I would say breaking make install is worse than 
> requiring people to keep debianutils installed. They can just use 
> package.provided if they want to get rid of it.

...which then breaks things that have a real dep upon it. That's a
really bad idea, just like absolutely everything else involving
package.provided.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-28 12:23 [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ? Mike Frysinger
2008-01-28 12:32 ` Rémi Cardona
2008-01-28 13:11 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-01-28 14:40 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-01-28 17:06   ` Jan Kundrát
2008-01-29  9:26     ` Duncan
2008-01-28 17:20   ` Vlastimil Babka
2008-01-29  9:06     ` Duncan
2008-01-28 14:57 ` [gentoo-dev] " Doug Klima
2008-01-28 15:35 ` Yuri Vasilevski
2008-01-28 16:37   ` Petteri Räty
2008-01-28 17:43   ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2008-01-28 17:59     ` Petteri Räty
2008-01-28 18:54       ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-01-28 19:07         ` Petteri Räty
2008-01-28 20:43       ` Matthias B.
2008-01-28 23:52         ` Marius Mauch
2008-01-28 18:04 ` Robin H. Johnson
2008-01-30 17:35 ` Philip Webb
2008-01-30 18:32   ` Chris Gianelloni
2008-01-30 19:04     ` Chris Gianelloni
2008-01-30 18:33   ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-01-31 15:49   ` Natanael Copa
2008-01-31 23:46     ` Mike Frysinger
2008-02-01 12:18       ` Natanael Copa
2008-02-01 13:54         ` Mike Frysinger
2008-02-02 11:03           ` Natanael Copa

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