*cough* clarifying the previous email, since I worded it badly. On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:07:28AM -0600, Brian Harring wrote: > Profiles won't work, allows for a possibility of people to miss the ebuild > eclass-compat being pulled in. > If someone doesn't upgrade for a long while, switches their profile (since > it's now deprecated) to a new profile that > lacks the eclass compat, they get left out in the rain. Adjusting all existing profiles, and leaving the dep off of 'new' profiles won't worrk, as clarified above.
In other words, all profiles would need to wind up with the eclass-compat depends. It's a bit ugly, but it's what I see as the only clean way to do this thing, without breaking things for our users. ~brian -- [email protected] mailing list
