On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 10/02/2010 06:26 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> >> My opinions haven't changed one bit in the past week. I don't see how >> not breaking the stable tree can be called being "overly >> conservative". > > you have a quite broad definition of "breaking". > > - clean slate emerge works before and after. > - adding a suggestion to use either the .la fixer scripts or revdep-rebuild > should be enough to have the system in a working state. > - the rough solution of removing all the .la files in the system works for > most use cases (that's my local solution) >
Okay, so you're saying that "it works fine in these specific cases, and if it doesn't, then you can fix it by doing XYZ". I would use that attitude with the unstable tree, not the stable tree. > So it isn't an earth shattering change like a nonfunctional libc in the > stable tree or a broken version of coreutils, please keep a bit of > perspective. > If half of QA team is so adamant in saying that this isn't an issue, I guess I'll just have to shut up. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
