From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 13-11-2012
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:11:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <509050A1.8050508@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121030220932.5cfdb34d@googlemail.com>
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Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:06:30 +0100 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
> <chithanh@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> The reason why I think that < dependencies are not bad is that
>> existing users of such packages will typically simply miss out
>> on upgrades.
>
> No, what will happen is that Portage will perform the upgrades
> anyway and break things, since it doesn't check dependencies of
> installed packages that aren't part of the resolution.
Do you have a test case for this? I haven't observed this in recent times.
Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-31 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-30 15:00 [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 13-11-2012 Fabian Groffen
2012-10-30 15:36 ` William Hubbs
2012-10-30 16:21 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2012-10-30 16:38 ` William Hubbs
2012-11-02 17:22 ` William Hubbs
2012-11-08 17:07 ` Alexis Ballier
2012-11-08 17:38 ` William Hubbs
2012-10-30 22:06 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-10-30 22:09 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-10-30 22:11 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn [this message]
2012-10-30 22:34 ` Zac Medico
2012-10-31 6:41 ` Pacho Ramos
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