On Wednesday 02 March 2005 01:37 pm, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 16:17 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> > because previous version had that functionality and users are using it.
> > - Put a new version *without* that functionality make users unhappy
> > - Don't let disponible a new version because of functionalityes that
> > they are not using make that users unappy
>
> Simple: if you need that particular functionality you must use a version
> which include it (meaning: do not use ~ARCH if you are not prepared to
> take the consequences).

yep ... and this is why we have all the files in /etc/portage/ so you can lock 
in older versions for a while

if these features are really that critical, why dont you forward port them 
yourself ? :p
-mike
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