Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

Zac Medico wrote:
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> Brian Harring wrote:
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>>Said single inheritance protection was added 06/05/06 (rev 3544), 
>>stabled for x86 roughly 06/22/06.
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>>Hasn't even yet made it to a release media- meaning folk installing 
>>from the most current release media still can get bit in the ass by 
>>switching to an N parent from the get go.
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> I'm not sure what the probability of people hurting themselves like this is.  Perhaps it's a negligible corner case and a note in the upgrade guide will be enough to keep the vast majority of users on the right track.  I'd hope that a user would be wise enough to read some docs prior to switching to a new profile with a potentially outdated version of portage.
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Damn your mail client ;)

The past[1] has shown that users don't read docs.

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63400

> Zac
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