On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 09:43 +0100, Steve Long wrote: > > > > > It works on stable systems, since gnupg is still slotted there: > > 1.4.7-r1 in slot 0 > > 1.9.21 in slot 1.9 > > > Er ok, but i'm guessing Mr Thomson wanted to have both available as separate > packages similar to those binary distros gentoo is supposedly able to spit > out (since it is a meta-distro.)
Nope Slotting accomplishes what is needed to resolve this for now. As mentioned it was slotted before gnupg-2, and for some reason the slot was dropped when gnupg-2 was committed to tree. Day one I ran into the problem, I requested it remain slotted. There has been opposition ever since. Not to mention I have never been provided any factual or technical reasons why we should provide gnupg-2 only. Best I got was personal preference of the developers managing the gnugp package. By the way, did I mention this causes depgraph issues, since day one? Which are only resolved by masking gnupg-2, or etc. Also we are currently symlinking gpg -> gpg2, and gpg2 doesn't support all the arguments and etc of gpg2. Since gnugp-2 does not support all features of gnupg-1. The symlink is a hack to try to avoid needed both. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Gentoo/Java
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