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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] minimalistic emerge
From:       Kent Fredric <kentfredric () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-08-08 19:56:18
Message-ID: CAATnKFBGbxvee+ERoZ61f0njd7AJ1PLzv9p_v2ET9h7TA-124w () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 9 August 2014 07:34, Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:

> ebuilds often (for me) have artificial dependencies, when the actual
> version required is too old to be in the tree, but maybe not too old
> to be installed on an existing system.
>


The inverse is also true, sometimes you see people go:

"Well, upstream requires Foo 1.5 at least, but we have 2.0 as the oldest in
tree,
  so we can just say dev-whatever/Foo  and be done with it"

Which turns out to be horribly wrong if somebody still has Foo 1.4
installed, for whatever reason.

And this is just one reason why being excessively lazy about what you
upgrade could be secretly detrimental.


-- 
Kent

*KENTNL* - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL

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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 August 2014 \
07:34, Peter Stuge <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:peter@stuge.se" \
target="_blank">peter@stuge.se</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div id=":326" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">ebuilds \
often (for me) have artificial dependencies, when the actual<br> version required is \
too old to be in the tree, but maybe not too old<br> to be installed on an existing \
system.</div></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The inverse is \
also true, sometimes you see people go: <br><br></div><div \
class="gmail_extra">&quot;Well, upstream requires Foo 1.5 at least, but we have 2.0 \
as the oldest in tree, <br> </div><div class="gmail_extra">   so we can just say \
dev-whatever/Foo   and be done with it&quot;<br><br></div><div \
class="gmail_extra">Which turns out to be horribly wrong if somebody still has Foo \
1.4 installed, for whatever reason.<br> <br></div><div class="gmail_extra">And this \
is just one reason why being excessively lazy about what you upgrade could be \
secretly detrimental. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><br>-- \
<br><div dir="ltr"> <div>Kent<font size="1"><b> <br><br></b></font></div><div><span \
style="color:rgb(204,204,204)"><font size="1"><b>KENTNL</b> - <a \
href="https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL" \
target="_blank">https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL</a></font></span><br> \
</div><div><br></div></div> </div></div>



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