From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] blocking mixed versions of split QT libraries
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 18:26:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090518182658.16c2eccf@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905181916.00201.reavertm@poczta.fm>
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On Mon, 18 May 2009 19:15:59 +0200
Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@poczta.fm> wrote:
> Not sure who is 'we' there, but Portage team already made is useful.
> Basic portage rule for soft-blocks behaviour is "no longer referenced
> (a'ka 'soft') blocked package can be uninstalled cleanly without user
> intervention"
That's not in the least bit well defined, and it's also extremely
dangerous.
> Zac did good job there saving users (especially KDE users) from
> nightmare of handling all package refactoring/blocks manually.
The nightmare only existed because of abuse of that feature. Had blocks
kept their original meaning, people would not have abused them to the
same extent.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-18 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-18 10:04 [gentoo-dev] blocking mixed versions of split QT libraries Alex Alexander
2009-05-18 10:22 ` Alistair Bush
2009-05-18 16:34 ` Alex Alexander
2009-05-18 14:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-18 14:47 ` Petteri Räty
2009-05-18 14:52 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-18 17:15 ` Maciej Mrozowski
2009-05-18 17:26 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2009-05-18 18:05 ` Maciej Mrozowski
2009-05-18 18:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-18 19:08 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-05-18 19:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-18 20:47 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-05-18 20:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-18 16:42 ` Alex Alexander
2009-05-18 16:51 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-05-18 17:01 ` Alex Alexander
2009-05-18 17:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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