On Tuesday 18 January 2005 15:19, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> No, it's the increase in nonsense on this list that's making me worse
> than normal.

and

> Sure, if you're going to make huge changes for different major versions
> of the package, have a foo-1 and a foo-2 eclass. This doesn't involve
> any kind of portage versioning, however, and so is totally irrelevant to
> the discussion.

Those are your opinions, and you're entitled to them.  

However, as the discussion started off with asking for a minimising of risk 
when core packages are changed, I think my contribution isn't irrelevant.  
You get to decide those things for yourself, but let others make up their own 
mind, eh? ;-)

For what it's worth, I don't see any benefit to adding any new support to 
Portage for versioned eclasses.  I think a policy requiring devs to use 
versioned eclasses would be the better way to go; except no-one else actually 
uses them, so I doubt the policy would be popular or successful.

Best regards,
Stu
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