From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: About the Qt 4.7.3 bump
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 15:43:55 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2011.05.11.15.43.54@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110511142748.GA13400@Eternity.halls.manchester.ac.uk
Markos Chandras posted on Wed, 11 May 2011 15:27:48 +0100 as excerpted:
> To my perspective, split ebuilds ease the integration of patches. You
> can patch a single ebuild and not have to rebuild everything else. But,
> when it comes to version bumps, I think it is more safe to bump
> everything. Do note that we apply patches more frequently than we do
> version bumps, so it is definitely worth the pain of having split
> ebuilds.
That was another reason given, and it still makes sense, as does the
safety of bumping everything together (no revdep-rebuild issues that way).
Thanks for the reminder. =:^)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-11 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-11 11:05 [gentoo-dev] About the Qt 4.7.3 bump Nikos Chantziaras
2011-05-11 11:09 ` Markos Chandras
2011-05-11 11:11 ` Markos Chandras
2011-05-11 11:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-05-11 12:32 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tomáš Chvátal
2011-05-11 12:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-05-11 14:20 ` Duncan
2011-05-11 14:27 ` Markos Chandras
2011-05-11 15:43 ` Duncan [this message]
2011-05-11 16:16 ` Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)
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