Colin Kingsley ha scritto:
I will bring some examples on this package but they can be applyed to others too.Why not just make a new iptables package with no "extensions" IUSE, and then make a rev-bump when the new patches are available?
True some users will lose functionality, but if the package simply does not have that functionality, the Gentoo package maintainer is not at fault. Users who insist on the extra functionality can mask the new version untill patches are released and a rev-bump made.
Colin
Bob is a sys-admin.
Bob manage a firewall happily up and running with gentoo, Bob use iptables emerged with USE="extensions" because he want and use l7 to let users only web browsing on port 80.
Bob is a good admin so he updates very often his firewall probably with "emerge -uDav --newuse world", the day that iptables-1.3 comes out *without* l7 support he is running that update, ... but Jenny the nicest girl of the whole office maybe of the planet is finally asking him to have a coffe with she.
Bob has sucessfully done that emerge so many times that he decided to not loose that opportunity and so tadaaa the screen will left alone and all messages outputted from ebuilds ignored.
We can bet that Bob will not be happy after finished to have the coffe.
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