On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:46:18 +0100 "Malte S. Stretz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I've got that great binary only game games-foo/foobar-1.0 installed. | Works great for me. Now there's a new version foobar-1.1 available | and you create an ebuild for it. Very cool, but while you did so, | you also did (for some reason or another) some tree-breaking change | to the games.eclass. A few weeks later there's another new version | foobar-1.2 for which you also create a new ebuild.
Your entire argument is flawed based upon the "tree-breaking change" thing. We don't commit tree-breaking changes to eclasses any more than we do to ebuilds. | Somebody noted that eclasses are like libs and must stay "binary | compatible" (as far as one can say that with a bunch of bash | functions) to the old versions. No, only to whatever's in the tree at the current time. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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