Adam Piątyszek wrote: > * Donnie Berkholz [2006-05-29 10:26]: > > This problem should only happen when you first use the eselect version, >> then switch back to the *-config version, then switch to the eselect >> version again. I don't consider it a real bug, because of this. >> >> The deal is that /etc/env.d/lapack/config will specify the >> CURRENT="$foo" setting, but it can't know about how things are set up >> using *-config rather than the eselect modules. > > So, it seems that the new eselect tool is not backward compatible with > previous approaches, which is in my opinion not a good idea. A user might > have mixed x86 and ~x86 packages installed and therefore some of them uses > old *-config scripts and others your new eselect tool. In such a situation > there is no convenient method to switch between libraries... > > That is of course my point of view, from the user's perspective.
In my opinion, adding extra code to deal with an old approach is a bad idea and will quickly introduce cruft into a new replacement. Supporting mixed testing-stable systems is not a goal. Supporting all-~x86 and all-x86 systems is a goal. Thanks, Donnie
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