On Sat, 16 May 2009 02:31:45 +0300 Petteri Räty <[email protected]> wrote: > > On the other hand you also have to make sure you have a stable > > portage for a time long enough so mostly everyone has it installed. > > Otherwise you could break users systems pretty badly depending on > > the packages. And Arch-Teams usually do a pretty good job in > > catching such cases. > > How would this breakage happen? The ebuild in the vdb still has the > old EAPI.
Portage likes to use metadata from the tree version of things even if there's also a version installed. This is a major nuisance, but is unfortunately considered a feature. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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