From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jnxwc-0004MF-Sm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:28:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EC4BE04FA; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from siemen.orkz.net (mail.orkz.net [212.178.119.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 286FEE04FA for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 82783 invoked by uid 98); 21 Apr 2008 15:30:19 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.220 by siemen.orkz.net (envelope-from , uid 89) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.88.4/1763. spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.220):. Processed in 0.022145 secs); 21 Apr 2008 15:30:19 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: jer@gentoo.org via siemen.orkz.net X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.220):. Processed in 0.022145 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO epia.jer-c2.orkz.net) (192.168.1.220) by siemen.orkz.net with AES128-SHA encrypted SMTP; 21 Apr 2008 15:30:19 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:28:34 +0200 From: Jeroen Roovers To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: New global USE flag: keyring Message-ID: <20080421172834.600e2578@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: References: <1208702743.15500.4.camel@marx> <9e0cf0bf0804200829g1e8bc280yd0c74af3abebd594@mail.gmail.com> <20080420153230.GA29610@trippin> <1208706284.15500.7.camel@marx> <9e0cf0bf0804200900t1498cc93s2e4feffb8acdfeab@mail.gmail.com> <20080421060502.52c9a3e9@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 01c4dbe5-9800-48d1-b705-ddc96dee9eb1 X-Archives-Hash: ac5451dbe7f195ea62df3c0b82a1d48b On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:02:29 +0100 Steve Long wrote: > Sorry to get technical but how difficult is it really to change USE > flag names? I appreciate that users are out of sync yadda yadda, but > could this kind of thing not be considered out of band data similar > to news? > > I accept that portage has to maintain compatibility but aiui the old > way of doing this was simply depending on a version of portage that > had the capability. Since we're only talking about ~10 packages, is > that so much of a hardship? > > After all, I'm sure the other manglers don't lag behind emerge, based > on the hyperbole. Do they? I'm deeply sorry. I read all of that three times and while it seemed to make sense the first time, by the third time I saw the error of my ways. Kind regards, JeR -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list