On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:52:08 +1300 Kent Fredric <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:24:19 +0200 > Alexis Ballier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Also, keep in mind that with an external utility you have far less > > control on what is executed than with something in $PORTDIR: people > > may use an older buggy version of the utility, while when shipping > > it in $PORTDIR you are sure that the version is up to date. > > Conversely ... you can't force people to use a specific version of > portage. > > But you can force a dependency on a newer version of the external > utility if the package needs to. which kind of defeats the point of having it done automagically without touching ebuilds :)
