Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] making the tree depend on portage

2005-12-20 Thread Francesco Riosa
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 20 December 2005 21:42, Francesco Riosa wrote: Whenever we want/need to make structural changes to the tree that are going to break backwards compability we have a serious problem [...] Just throwing random thoughts here, but Would a

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] making the tree depend on portage

2005-12-20 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 23:15, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 20 December 2005 01:49, Marius Mauch wrote: Also not talking about implementation details yet, just after comments about the general idea of forced portage updates. I gave it a go anyway... ;) Also needed: Index: portage.py

[gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] making the tree depend on portage

2005-12-19 Thread Marius Mauch
Ok, the subject might be confusing, so let me explain this a bit: Whenever we want/need to make structural changes to the tree that are going to break backwards compability we have a serious problem (see GLEP 44 in case you don't know about it). To reduce the impact of that problem I've got the