On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:48:23 -0700 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > but I'd suspect that many > > people share my original assumption and expect it to only match full > > version components > > Hear a bit of screaming from it once every 4-6 months; personally, I > interpret that as devs know which to use usually- additionally, once > the (bluntly) hissy fit from the dev subsides, and they're reminded > "yes it's annoying, but if you want it changed take it to dev to get > consensus" folks promptly forget about it. > > Either they're silently working around it, or it's not that much of > an issue (I suspect the latter, but am neutral towards the change). Well, practically it's not a big issue as in 99% of all cases it works like people expect. > Should be discussed on -dev, not here imo; they're the ones affected > by it (it's essentially their standard after all). Changing it? > Sure, but it's a required eapi bump; portage chokes on .* now. > > I'd also not bump eapi just for one change; there is a boatload of > other stuff that's waiting for an apt time to be pushed out together. Sure going to sned this to -dev, just usually going for input from a smaller audience first. Haven't yet thought about details in case of changing it, first gonna decide what the "correct" behavior is. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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