On Thursday 30 March 2006 01:21, Marius Mauch wrote:
> Marius Mauch schrieb:
> > So after manifest2 is in, I'll revive the other issue that IMO is a 
> > requirement for 2.1: enforcing dependencies needed to use the tree (see 
> > old threads or glep44 for reasoning).

Can you summarise the reasoning again please?

> - at sync time first check the tree format of the remote tree, if we 
> can't handle it the sync is aborted

While I haven't checked over the code at all, the point above above sounds
problematic. What happens if the a user installs the latest with this patch
and then doesn't sync for three years? The tree may then require a later
portage but the user can't sync to be able to emerge a later portage.

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