Zac Medico wrote:
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Brian Harring wrote:
Said single inheritance protection was added 06/05/06 (rev 3544),
stabled for x86 roughly 06/22/06.
Hasn't even yet made it to a release media- meaning folk installing
from the most current release media still can get bit in the ass by
switching to an N parent from the get go.
I'm not sure what the probability of people hurting themselves like this is.
Perhaps it's a negligible corner case and a note in the upgrade guide will be
enough to keep the vast majority of users on the right track. I'd hope that a
user would be wise enough to read some docs prior to switching to a new profile
with a potentially outdated version of portage.
Damn your mail client ;)
The past[1] has shown that users don't read docs.
[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63400
Zac
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