[gentoo-dev] Virtual default changes for old users, was: Heads up: libjpeg-turbo stabilization, becoming the default
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:33:03 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: libjpeg-turbo stabilization is happening for amd64/x86 at http://bugs.gentoo.org/360715 - the gentoo-x86 has been converted to virtual/jpeg to support this. - we have no bugs reported against the package. - libjpeg-turbo is default in virtual/jpeg so just heads up. Hi everyone, Just a user, not a developer, but: The third point of this message made me wonder about something. New installs will get libjpeg-turbo, as it's the default. Old users may never know it exists! It seems that making lbjpeg-turbo the default implementation of virtual/jpeg is expressing some small preference in favour of it, but old users will never be presented with the choice to switch. It seems like this is a bit of a gap in package management, that even if a better package becomes available and becomes the default implementation of a virtual, existing users will keep using the worse package for no other reason than that it's already installed (and there's no message anywhere even telling them that the change happened). Does anyone think this is suboptimal and that it might be nice to investigate alternatives? Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3nHIkACgkQXUF6hOTGP7ftqwCgho+EhlOnvy1swE7nOE21TcMq wiIAn1Vr9fRZmvRIvyO5vsILWT9XzSxi =GIqk -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtual default changes for old users, was: Heads up: libjpeg-turbo stabilization, becoming the default
On 06/01/2011 10:15 PM, Christopher Head wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:33:03 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: libjpeg-turbo stabilization is happening for amd64/x86 at http://bugs.gentoo.org/360715 - the gentoo-x86 has been converted to virtual/jpeg to support this. - we have no bugs reported against the package. - libjpeg-turbo is default in virtual/jpeg so just heads up. Hi everyone, Just a user, not a developer, but: The third point of this message made me wonder about something. New installs will get libjpeg-turbo, as it's the default. Old users may never know it exists! It seems that making lbjpeg-turbo the default implementation of virtual/jpeg is expressing some small preference in favour of it, but old users will never be presented with the choice to switch. It seems like this is a bit of a gap in package management, that even if a better package becomes available and becomes the default implementation of a virtual, existing users will keep using the worse package for no other reason than that it's already installed (and there's no message anywhere even telling them that the change happened). Does anyone think this is suboptimal and that it might be nice to investigate alternatives? A couple of alternatives come to mind: A) Create a news item to notify people who have media-libs/jpeg installed that there is an alternative. B) Put media-libs/jpeg in package.mask, so that migration happens automatically. -- Thanks, Zac
