On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:32:04 -0600 Daniel Goller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:46:18 +0100 "Malte S. Stretz" | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | I've got that great binary only game games-foo/foobar-1.0 | > | installed. Works great for me. Now there's a new version | > | foobar-1.1 available and you create an ebuild for it. Very cool, | > | but while you did so, you also did (for some reason or another) | > | some tree-breaking change to the games.eclass. A few weeks later | > | there's another new version foobar-1.2 for which you also create | > | a new ebuild. | > | > Your entire argument is flawed based upon the "tree-breaking change" | > thing. We don't commit tree-breaking changes to eclasses any more | > than we do to ebuilds. | | you know it happens, and w/o versioned eclasses there is no way back | for the user
Sure there is. CVSweb, same as if we break an ebuild. | so dont pretend we are all flawless superhuman AIs | just cause you are doing flawless testing, doesnt mean we shouldnt | keep an easy way open to revert eclasses or allow locking down of a | setup for users ...or you could put all this effort into doing something useful. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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