On 3/29/06, Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:30:17 +0900 > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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? > > a) avoid massive breakage when certain new features are introduced > (past examples being cascading profiles or new-style virtuals) > b) similar to a) allow people to use new features without having to > wait for a year or two
It's worth noting that the massive breakage (virtuals fex) can be dealt with a bit saner by writing robust code. The virtuals horkage during cache transfer being the prime example of that... > These docs will then tell the user about the following options > a) use the secret override This seems like a case where --force would be a helluva lot better then some random nasty env var that is documented on a webpage (assume the user has no browser due to bootstrapping the system without a web connection). > That should be an extreme exception though, there will be some rules > regarding format bumps (like "only use formats where that haven been > supported by stable portage for n months"). Knowing the rules up front would be useful to evaluate this patch's usefulness... -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
