On Thursday 21 October 2004 7:00 pm, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> These problems (as rac mentions) can somewhat be overcome by freezing
> the toolchain or (as rac doesn't really mention) freezing the whole
> tree.  I know freezing the tree has been mentioned as an "enterprise"
> type option (having a supported tree with backported security fixes),
> though it would help with desktop binary compatibility as well.

Or simply by updating the RDEPEND in the binary pkg to lock it to specific 
versions of packages. The problem then would be figuring out which packages 
are binary compatible and *not* locking those.
-- 
Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
http://utopios.org/