Enrico Weigelt wrote:
If we changed the name of a package every time there was an API break,
we would literally have thousands of packages in the tree that essentially
do the same thing, just with different API's.
Yes, but it would be much more cleaner. Everyone would see what
actually happens. Now its hidden from the user, but not changing
the fact that they're different.
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Tell me, where is it actually hidden?
I tend to avoid such unstable packages.
Nice for you. We don't care.
Thanks for the warning of neon, so I'll never even think of using it.
Nice for you. We don't care.
Of course. They're different packages.
They have the same name. Different versions. That's how it is upstream and how
it should be.
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Kind Regards,
Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 Developer
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