On Monday 09 May 2005 22:27, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 09 May 2005 04:12 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > What about adding a "panic" mode to portage which, when confronted
> > with a missing profile, (and after confirmation) continues to upgrade
> > portage to the latest version it can find with some default settings
> > that should allways work.
>
> looking ahead that's a good idea but for older portages that doesnt
> help at all ... the profiles we're talking about here will break when
> given a cascaded profile

I know. But I'm certain that todays profiles will need to be removed in 
the future. And quite possibly there will be things that break very old 
portage versions.

Paul

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