Re: [gentoo-dev] USE & KEYWORDS relation

[Francesco Riosa <francesco@pnpitalia.it>]

Colin Kingsley ha scritto:

>Why not just make a new iptables package with no "extensions" IUSE,
>and then make a rev-bump when the new patches are available?
>
>True some users will lose functionality, but if the package simply
>does not have that functionality, the Gentoo package maintainer is not
>at fault. Users who insist on the extra functionality can mask the new
>version untill patches are released and a rev-bump made.
>
>Colin
>  
>
I will bring some examples on this package but they can be applyed to 
others too.
Bob is a sys-admin.
Bob manage a firewall happily up and running with gentoo, Bob use 
iptables emerged with USE="extensions" because he want and use l7 to let 
users only web browsing on port 80.
Bob is a good admin so he updates very often his firewall probably with 
"emerge -uDav --newuse world", the day that iptables-1.3 comes out 
*without* l7 support he is running that update, ... but Jenny the nicest 
girl of the whole office maybe of the planet is finally asking him to 
have a coffe with she.
Bob has sucessfully done that emerge so many times that he decided to 
not loose that opportunity and so tadaaa the screen will left alone and 
all messages outputted from ebuilds ignored.
We can bet that Bob will not be happy after finished to have the coffe.


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