Marius Mauch wrote: [Tue Dec 06 2005, 10:04:53AM CST] > As promised here the GLEP for Manifest2 support: > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0044.html
You know, I'd actually support a rather more abrupt transition, where we announce that on a particular date all digest files are going to be removed, thereby breaking any version of portage older than portage-x.y.z. Many people would probably miss such a deadline, but assuming that we also publicize how to download and unpack a portage rescue tarball then I would think that the actual pain would be minimal. (Indeed, we could even have a fix-portage.sh script in /usr/portage/scripts that would do the downloading and unpacking, if we wanted to be particularly nice.) Backwards compatibility is nice, but I'd really rather not see good ideas take a year to fully be implemented unless absolutely required. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76
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