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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?
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On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 14:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >
> > Feedback from the consumer end of the producer-consumer link :-)
> >
> > The motivation is fine and well, it didn't quite work out, we call
> > this a "bug".
> >
> > The only real mistake was trying to slipstream it in without
> > notification or warning. devs all agree we should never do this, but
> > it is so ... tempting.
> >
> > I've made the same mistake myself many many times, and each time it
> > came back and bit me hard :-)
> >
> >
> >    
> 
> What I like is the speed it got corrected.  People that don't sync often 
> most likely didn't even know it ever changed.
> 
...

I got bit, on a 6 monthly major update across multiple systems - what
were the odds of that happening?  

Despite that, its small potatoes in the scheme of updating perl/python
and other major packages ...

BillK