On Thursday 29 December 2005 06:35, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 14:13 +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i dont really see this being an issue ... i dont think anyone really > > has 'xml -xml2' or '-xml xml2' ... much more likely they have 'xml > > xml2' or '-xml -xml2' > > I feel really bad that you're going off and making this change during > the holiday season, when IT departments are going to be understaffed at > best. If a security-related release of affected packages had to happen, > your un-announced change could end up breaking production boxes.
i already told you in the bug that i wasnt going to be making the major changes over the precious holiday season (changing all ebuilds to IUSE=xml from IUSE=xml2) the only changes that are happening now are in samba/php/pykota/sitecopy ... the samba/pykota maintainer noted that the xml stuff is hardly used, while the sitecopy stuff only exists in the older ebuilds as for your php, the changes affect only dev-lang/php which: - you php guys yourselves have declared dev-lang/php *incomplete* -> thus it is *not* meant to be used on production systems - theres already a friggin billion USE flags in php so anyone upgrading php should know enough to check `emerge -pv` output to see what kind of crazy stuff has changed for who knows what reasons if an IT dept is stupid enough to use such clearly alpha packages on their production systems, not to mention trying to upgrade it "during the holiday season, when IT departments are going to be understaffed at best", then they deserve to get their stupid ass fired -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
