From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJDda-0004aV-DZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:06:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11A1DE0757 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:06:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941DDE0790 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:50:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id nBBLomFB023406; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:50:48 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nBBLomDo022123; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:50:48 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nBBLomhb022120; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:50:48 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19234.48824.521170.185497@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:50:48 +0100 To: Ciaran McCreesh Cc: Brian Harring , Christian Faulhammer , gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] kdebuild-1 conditionals In-Reply-To: <20091211213412.7484f49c@snowmobile> References: <20091210215156.7b7f4c99@gentoo.org> <20091211165914.GE6529@hrair> <20091211182032.4972e9bb@snowcone> <19234.47347.151129.528238@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20091211213412.7484f49c@snowmobile> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12 under 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: c43e1583-84cd-4546-ac7d-abd56cf6d93f X-Archives-Hash: daeebd96d013942b0d497e3bc7c6355d >>>>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > I need it there for as long as there is support for it in Paludis, > which is two major releases away if we do this the responsible way So keep an old version of it around for your own personal use. Where's the problem with this? > What's wrong with leaving something that's already there in place > for a while longer? It makes the LaTeX source almost unreadable in some places, and therefore makes working with it more difficult. And please specify what timeframe you mean by "a while". Weeks, months, years? Ulrich