From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] minimalistic emerge
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 07:56:18 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAATnKFBGbxvee+ERoZ61f0njd7AJ1PLzv9p_v2ET9h7TA-124w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140808193433.25388.qmail@stuge.se>
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On 9 August 2014 07:34, Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:
> ebuilds often (for me) have artificial dependencies, when the actual
> version required is too old to be in the tree, but maybe not too old
> to be installed on an existing system.
>
The inverse is also true, sometimes you see people go:
"Well, upstream requires Foo 1.5 at least, but we have 2.0 as the oldest in
tree,
so we can just say dev-whatever/Foo and be done with it"
Which turns out to be horribly wrong if somebody still has Foo 1.4
installed, for whatever reason.
And this is just one reason why being excessively lazy about what you
upgrade could be secretly detrimental.
--
Kent
*KENTNL* - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-08 13:12 [gentoo-dev] minimalistic emerge Igor
2014-08-08 13:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-08-08 15:23 ` Igor
2014-08-08 15:36 ` hasufell
2014-08-08 15:53 ` Igor
2014-08-08 15:45 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-08-08 16:27 ` Igor
2014-08-08 16:40 ` Homer Parker
2014-08-08 17:26 ` Igor
2014-08-08 17:32 ` Homer Parker
2014-08-08 17:30 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-08-09 9:34 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2014-08-09 15:25 ` Igor
2014-08-13 7:54 ` [OT] " Tom Wijsman
2014-08-08 16:31 ` Rich Freeman
2014-08-08 13:23 ` hasufell
2014-08-08 13:32 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-08-08 15:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-08-13 8:13 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-08-08 15:51 ` Kent Fredric
2014-08-08 16:58 ` Igor
2014-08-08 17:29 ` Kent Fredric
2014-08-08 20:52 ` Igor
2014-08-08 21:33 ` Kent Fredric
2014-08-08 21:39 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-08-08 21:43 ` Kent Fredric
2014-08-09 14:56 ` Igor
2014-08-09 15:12 ` Chris Reffett
2014-08-09 17:10 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-08-13 8:20 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-08-13 13:17 ` hasufell
2014-08-09 19:30 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-08-09 15:44 ` Chris Reffett
2014-08-09 15:46 ` Chris Reffett
2014-08-09 15:58 ` Chris Reffett
2014-08-08 19:34 ` Peter Stuge
2014-08-08 19:47 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-08-08 19:56 ` Kent Fredric [this message]
2014-08-08 20:16 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2014-08-09 2:14 ` Rich Freeman
2014-08-09 8:30 ` Peter Stuge
2014-08-08 21:04 ` Johannes Huber
2014-08-13 8:25 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-08-09 3:07 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2014-08-09 8:34 ` Peter Stuge
2014-08-09 11:03 ` Duncan
2014-08-09 11:06 ` hasufell
2014-08-09 12:16 ` Ambroz Bizjak
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